ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,177, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Japan).
"Ink jet printing method and ink jet printing set" was invented by Ryota Miyasa (Matsumoto, Japan), Takayoshi Kagata (Shiojiri, Japan), Toshiaki Oguchi (Shiojiri, Japan) and Hiromu Miyazawa (Azumino, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ink jet printing method includes an ejection step of ejecting an ink jet ink composition containing a sublimation dye from a recording head so as to be adhered to an intermediate transfer medium A; and a transfer step of transferring the sublimation dye adhered to the intermediate transfer medium A by sublimation to a cloth B. In th...