ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,365, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Pretreatment liquid for impermeable base material, ink set, image recording method, image recorded material, and recording medium and method of producing same" was invented by Yusuke Fujii (Kanagawa, Japan) and Ayato Sato (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are: a pretreatment liquid for an impermeable base material, including an aggregating agent (A) which contains at least one selected from the group consisting of an organic acid and a polyvalent metal salt, a nitrogen-containing compound (B) which contains at least one selected from the group c...