ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,852, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Japan).

"Ink composition for ink jet textile printing and recording method" was invented by Hiromi Noguchi (Shiojiri, Japan), Shintaro Hama (Matsumoto, Japan), Hidehiko Komatsu (Chino, Japan), Yasuhiro Oki (Matsumoto, Japan) and Hisashi Okamura (Shiojiri, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ink composition for ink jet textile printing of the present disclosure contains a color material, a water-soluble organic solvent, and water, and the color material contains a color material A represented by Formula (1) below, a color material B represented by Formula (2) below, and a ...