ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,085, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Ink jet recording ink and ink jet recording method" was invented by Hiromichi Numazawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Daisuke Sasaki (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yusuke Sakai (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are an ink jet recording ink containing a polymerizable monomer (A), a polymerization initiator (B), a siloxane compound (C) which includes a main chain including a structural unit having an Si-O bond and a side chain including at least one of an ethyleneoxy unit or a propyleneoxy unit and a polymerizable group, in which a proportion of a total number of mole...