US Patent Issued to Canon Production Printing Holding on June 16 for "Printer apparatus and print method for preparing an image having matt portions and glossy portions" (Dutch Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,471, issued on June 16, was assigned to Canon Production Printing Holding B.V. (Venlo, Netherlands).

"Printer apparatus and print method for preparing an image having matt portions and glossy portions" was invented by Cornelis P.M. Van Heijst (Venlo, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printer apparatus for recording images having matt portions and glossy portions and a print method for recording images having matt portions and glossy portions onto a porous media are disclosed. The method involves locally applying a support layer and subsequently applying an image portion on top of the support layer."

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