US Patent Issued to Seiko Epson on July 14 for "Method of transfer printing on tatami mat cover, tatami mat cover" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,130, issued on July 14, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method of transfer printing on tatami mat cover, tatami mat cover" was invented by Hideki Kato (Matsumoto, Japan), Mugio Kawasaki (Suwa, Japan), Masahiro Ogihara (Okaya, Japan), Yusuke Kato (Shiojiri, Japan) and Nobuyuki Fujimori (Suwa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of transfer printing on a tatami mat cover includes a printing step for performing printing on an intermediate transfer medium using a color ink composition containing a sublimable dye, a water-soluble organic solvent, and water, and a transfer step for transferring the print on the interm...