US Patent Issued to XEROX on Jan. 20 for "Water-robustness of inkjet prints using paper precoat and methods thereof" (New York, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,972, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to XEROX Corp. (Norwalk, Conn.).

"Water-robustness of inkjet prints using paper precoat and methods thereof" was invented by Varun Sambhy (Pittsford, N.Y.), Eliud Robles Flores (Rochester, N.Y.), Guo-Yau Lin (The Woodlands, Texas) and Santokh S. Badesha (Pittsford, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for improving water fastness of printed documents is described, including a paper transport configured to move paper along a path throughout the system for improving water fastness, a precoat application subsystem located along the path of the paper transport may include a precoat composition...