US Patent Issued to Canon on March 24 for "Ink jet recording method and ink jet recording apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,033, issued on March 24, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Ink jet recording method and ink jet recording apparatus" was invented by Eiichi Nakata (Kanagawa, Japan), Yuko Negishi (Tokyo) and Ryo Tsujii (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ink jet recording method includes a step of providing a recording medium with an aqueous ink containing a pigment dispersed by an action of an anionic group, a resin particle and a wax particle and an aqueous reaction liquid containing a reaction agent that reacts with the aqueous ink and a step of heating the recording medium provided with the aqueous ink and the aqueous reaction liquid. A ...