US Patent Issued to BROTHER KOGYO on July 14 for "Image forming method and image forming system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,129, issued on July 14, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Image forming method and image forming system" was invented by Shinpei Ito (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming method includes: applying a pretreatment liquid, which is an aqueous solution, to a cloth material; heating the applied pretreatment liquid; and applying an ink onto the cloth material, after heating, to form an image on the cloth material by an ink jet method. After heating, the cloth material includes the pretreatment liquid and an amount of the pretreatment liquid per unit area of the cloth material is less than 30 mg/c...