ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,678, issued on May 27, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Japan).
"Recording method and recording apparatus" was invented by Naoki Koike (Matsumoto, Japan) and Ippei Okuda (Shiojiri, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A recording method includes a white ink attachment step, in which a white ink composition containing a white colorant is attached to a recording medium; a non-white ink attachment step, in which a non-white ink composition containing a non-white colorant is attached to overlap the attached white ink composition; a first treatment liquid attachment step, accompanying the white ink attachment step and in which a treatme...