US Patent Issued to TOPPAN on Nov. 11 for "Edible IJ ink, tablet, and capsule" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,572, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to TOPPAN INC. (Tokyo).

"Edible IJ ink, tablet, and capsule" was invented by Masato Fukushiro (Tokyo), Yuichi Hoshino (Tokyo), Masatoshi Saito (Tokyo) and Hideki Ishikawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An edible IJ ink that has good dispersion stability and printing resumability (intermission resumability), dries quickly, and provides good print quality (for example, prevents streaking), and to provide a tablet and a capsule including a printed part printed using the edible IJ ink, the edible IJ ink comprises water, titanium oxide, a dispersant, a wetting agent, and a water-soluble polysacc...