US Patent Issued to SEIKO EPSON on June 23 for "Recording method and recording apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,920, issued on June 23, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Japan).

"Recording method and recording apparatus" was invented by Naoki Koike (Matsumoto, Japan) and Ippei Okuda (Shiojiri, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A recording method includes a treatment liquid attachment step, a white ink attachment step, and a non-white ink attachment step. The white ink attachment step and the non-white ink attachment step are each performed by scanning while the ink jet head is moved with respect to the recording medium in a state where a position is fixed. The white ink composition is attached to a scanning region in one scanning and, the ...