ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,712, issued on June 30, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Japan).

"Treatment liquid composition for dye printing, composition set, textile printing method, and ink jet textile printing method" was invented by Toshiaki Oguchi (Shiojiri, Japan) and Takayoshi Kagata (Shiojiri, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A treatment liquid composition for dye printing according to the present disclosure is used in a state of being attached to a fabric and includes resin particles, a crosslinking agent, an organic solvent, and water, in which the organic solvent has an SP value of 13.5 or less, the organic solvent has a standard boiling point o...