US Patent Issued to KONICA MINOLTA on June 2 for "Image forming method, image forming apparatus, and image forming system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,226, issued on June 2, was assigned to KONICA MINOLTA INC. (Tokyo).

"Image forming method, image forming apparatus, and image forming system" was invented by Ken Nito (Hino, Japan) and Ayumi Kawamura (Hino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming method for forming an image on a cloth with a sublimation coloring material, the image forming method including: pretreatment liquid applying that is applying a pretreatment liquid to the cloth; drying that is drying the cloth after the pretreatment liquid applying; and sublimation coloring material applying that is applying the sublimation coloring material to the cloth after t...