ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,730, issued on May 19, was assigned to Kornit Digital Ltd. (Rosh HaAyin, Israel).

"Dye-sublimation inkjet printing for textile" was invented by Allon Shimoni (Modiin-Maccabim-Reut, Israel) and Jacob Mozel (Kfar-Saba, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein is an inkjet dye-sublimation ink composition that is formulated to interact with an immobilizing composition such that the ink composition coagulates on the surface of an absorptive substrate, thereby substantially limiting soaking of the ink composition into the substrate. Also provided are a printing process and a printing machine, wherein the ink composition is dire...