US Patent Issued to BROTHER KOGYO on Feb. 17 for "Image forming method, image-formed article manufacturing method, and image forming system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,191, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Image forming method, image-formed article manufacturing method, and image forming system" was invented by Nao Mizuno (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming method includes: applying a resin powder to a first area of an object to be subjected to image forming; applying a water-based ink comprising pigments to a second area of the object by an inkjet method to form an image, the first area and the second area at least partially overlapping each other; and heating the first area and the second area to fix the resin powder and the water-...