ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,006, issued on June 2, was assigned to Agfa NV (Mortsel, Belgium).

"Aqueous resin particle dispersion" was invented by Fabienne Goethals (Mortsel, Belgium) and Freya Curinckx (Mortsel, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aqueous resin particle dispersion, the resin comprises a repeating unit according to general formula (I). The resin particles can be incorporated in aqueous printing liquids such as aqueous inkjet inks."

The patent was filed on April 13, 2021, under Application No. 17/920,439.

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