ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,816, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Ink jet recording method and ink jet recording apparatus" was invented by Tomoaki Ishii (Saitama, Japan), Tomohiro Yamashita (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroshi Kakikawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kenichi Shiiba (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an ink jet recording method including using an ink jet recording apparatus, the ink jet recording apparatus including: an aqueous ink containing resin particles each dyed with a fluorescent dye. A plurality of nozzle arrays include a first nozzle array and a second nozzle array arranged in a predetermined direction so as to...