ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,976, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to TOYO SEIKAN Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Method for manufacturing object to be printed and object to be printed" was invented by Koji Yamada (Yokohama, Japan), Yukiko Saito (Yokohama, Japan), Hironori Ozeki (Yokohama, Japan) and Shigenobu Murakami (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an object to be printed which can improve the quality of a printed image in inkjet printing on the object to be printed, regardless of the resolution of an inkjet image. In a method for producing an object to be printed having an area to be printed on a surface thereof, a surface of the area to be pri...