ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,578, issued on July 29, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Japan).
"Recording method and ink jet recording apparatus" was invented by Kenichi Seguchi (Okaya, Japan) and Mitsuaki Kosaka (Minowa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A recording method includes an adhesion step of ejecting an ink composition from an ink jet head to be adhered to a recording medium; and a primary heating step of heating the adhered ink composition, and the adhesion step includes at least one main scanning in which while a relative position of the ink jet head and the recording medium is changed in a main scanning direction, the ink composition is adhered...