US Patent Issued to Canon on July 28 for "Ink jet recording method and ink jet recording apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,686, issued on July 28, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Ink jet recording method and ink jet recording apparatus" was invented by Keita Ishimi (Kanagawa, Japan), Toshimitsu Danzuka (Tokyo), Rie Takekoshi (Kanagawa, Japan), Akihiro Tomida (Kanagawa, Japan), Akiko Aichi (Tokyo) and Hiroto Kango (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ink jet recording method for recording an image on a recording medium by ejecting an aqueous ink from a print head of an ink jet recording apparatus includes applying an aqueous ink onto a recording medium, and cleaning a liquid contact member coming into contact with the aqueous ink in the ink jet r...