ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,333, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to NORITAKE Co. Ltd. (Japan).
"Inkjet ink" was invented by Tomoshi Kumazawa (Nagoya, Japan), Hiromichi Hayashi (Nagoya, Japan) and Yuuki Arakawa (Nagoya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Inkjet ink disclosed herein, usable for at least a transfer sheet suitable for an inorganic substrate, contains an inorganic solid content and a photocurable monomer component. The monomer component contains at least a monofunctional acrylate-based monomer, a monofunctional N-vinyl compound monomer, and a polyfunctional vinylether-based monomer. With respect to 100% by mass as the total weight of the monomer ...