ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,326, issued on June 2, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Ink jet recording method and ink jet recording apparatus" was invented by Eriko Yoshino (Kanagawa, Japan), Soichi Nagai (Kanagawa, Japan) and Atsuhito Yoshizawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an ink jet recording method with which, even when a recording head in which a protective tape is bonded to an ejection orifice surface which is a water-repellent surface is used, occurrence of ejection misdirection of an ink is suppressed, and the ejection misdirection hardly occurs even after long-period use. The ink jet recording method includes recording an image th...