ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,000, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Japan).
"Ink jet recording method" was invented by Kiyoshi Nakamura (Matsumoto, Japan) and Masashi Yasui (Matsumoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ink jet recording method includes an overcoat layer forming step of forming an overcoat layer on a color layer formed on a recording medium by using a radiation-curable white ink composition and a radiation-curable clear ink composition. The overcoat layer forming step includes an ejection step O of ejecting, from an ink jet head O, the radiation-curable white ink composition and the radiation-curable clear ink compositio...