ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,490, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).
"Recording method" was invented by Kiyohiko Takemoto (Matsumoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A recording method includes a first drying step of evaporating 50 to 85 wt % of ink adhering on a recording medium, the ink being ejected from a recording head onto a surface of the recording medium back side of which is supported on a medium-supporting unit which faces the recording head, and a second drying step of drying the recording medium, which has been subjected to the first drying step, at the downstream side of the medium-supporting unit in a feeding direction...