US Patent Issued to Eastman Kodak on Sept. 1 for "Aqueous compositions and inkjet receiving media" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,170, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Eastman Kodak Co. (Rochester, N.Y.).

"Aqueous compositions and inkjet receiving media" was invented by Mark Edward Irving (Rochester, N.Y.), Douglas Eugene Bugner (Rochester, N.Y.) and David. D. Putnam (Fairport, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aqueous composition can be used for pre-treating a substrate prior to inkjet printing to provide a white opaque background for inkjet-printed images. This aqueous composition includes: (a) one or more water-soluble salts of a multivalent metal cation at 5-30 weight %; (b) a nonionic or cationic water-soluble or water-dispersible polymeric binder m...