US Patent Issued to Canon on March 17 for "Active energy ray-curable aqueous ink, recording method and recording apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,417, issued on March 17, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Active energy ray-curable aqueous ink, recording method and recording apparatus" was invented by Yasuaki Tominaga (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kenji Shinjo (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an active energy ray-curable aqueous ink which contains water and a curable substance and curable by an active energy ray. The curable substance contains a bifunctional polymerizable monomer represented by the following General Formula (1): wherein, R1 is a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, R2 is a divalent saturated hydrocarbon group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms and L ...