ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,236, issued on May 12, was assigned to KAO Corp. (Tokyo).
"Inkjet inks for opaque printed images" was invented by Yuta Matsumoto (Cincinnati) and Tomohide Yoshida (Wakayama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inkjet ink, including (A) a resin, which is (A1) a terpene resin or (A2) a terpene phenol resin, (B) a solvent system including (B1) a volatile organic solvent having a boiling point of less than 100deg C., and (C) silver nanoparticles. A printed article, including a substrate, and an opaque film disposed on the substrate. The opaque film is formed from the inkjet ink."
The patent was filed on March 31, 2021, under Applicat...