US Patent Issued to SAKATA INX on May 12 for "Pre-coating agent, ink set for inkjet recording, and laminate" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,240, issued on May 12, was assigned to SAKATA INX CORP. (Osaka, Japan).

"Pre-coating agent, ink set for inkjet recording, and laminate" was invented by Hirohito Maeda (Osaka, Japan), Hiroyuki Konishi (Osaka, Japan), Yuya Watanabe (Osaka, Japan) and Ryohei Miyake (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a pre-coating agent capable of, without containing a polyvalent metal salt, preventing or reducing mottling and bleeding to improve the print image quality and preventing or reducing strike-through of an ink composition for inkjet recording during printing using the ink composition for inkjet recording...