US Patent Issued to SEIKO EPSON on Oct. 7 for "Methods for printing and wrapping" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,488, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Japan).

"Methods for printing and wrapping" was invented by Kenichi Seguchi (Okaya, Japan), Chigusa Sato (Matsumoto, Japan) and Emi Takeuchi (Shiojiri, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing method is used for printing a shrink film with radiation-curable ink. The printing method includes forming an image on the shrink film with a first radiation-curable ink by an ink jet method, and forming a fixing pattern by applying a second radiation-curable ink onto a surface of the shrink film that is to come into contact with an object to be wrapped with the shrink film."

The ...