US Patent Issued to RISO KAGAKU on March 24 for "Printing apparatus and method for forming printed images having glossiness" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,246, issued on March 24, was assigned to RISO KAGAKU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Printing apparatus and method for forming printed images having glossiness" was invented by Tadashi Takakusa (Tokyo) and Shoji Naramoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus includes: a gloss forming unit that forms at least two regions having different gloss levels on a print medium; and a print image forming unit that forms a print image on the at least two regions having different gloss levels of the print medium after the gloss forming unit forms the at least two regions."

The patent was filed on Jan. 30, 2023, under Application No. 18/102...