ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,489, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Japan).

"Method for producing recorded matter" was invented by Midori Sekine (Matsumoto, Japan) and Haruya Koyama (Suita, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a recorded matter includes a first ejection step of ejecting a first ink, which is a radiation-curable ink jet composition, and adhering the first ink to a recording medium, a first irradiation step of irradiating radiation to the first ink adhered to the recording medium to obtain a cured coating film of the first ink, a second ejection step of ejecting a second ink, which is a radiation-curable in...