US Patent Issued to Dai Nippon Printing on Jan. 27 for "Thermal transfer sheet, and combination of thermal transfer sheet and intermediate transfer medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,904, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Dai Nippon Printing Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Thermal transfer sheet, and combination of thermal transfer sheet and intermediate transfer medium" was invented by Emi Mori (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is a thermal transfer sheet including a substrate and a transfer layer, the transfer layer containing a luster pigment, wherein, when an image of the sheet is taken from a side on which the transfer layer is present, the image is analyzed, dark and light portions of the analyzed image are inverted, automatic thresholding is performed in order to determine a threshold value ...