ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,753,011, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Japan).

"Aqueous adhesive composition, cloth-transporting belt, ink jet textile printing apparatus, and methods for preparing aqueous adhesive composition" was invented by Soichi Yamazaki (Shiojiri, Japan), Nikako Tsukiji (Matsumoto, Japan) and Harunobu Komatsu (Matsumoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aqueous adhesive composition forms an adhesive layer on a cloth-transporting belt of an ink jet textile printing apparatus. The aqueous adhesive composition contains acrylic resin and forms an adhesive layer with an adhesion of 0.1 N/25 mm to 10 N/25 mm."

The patent wa...