ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,470, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Japan).

"Ink-receiving body and recording method" was invented by Tasuku Nakamura (Matsumoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ink-receiving body includes an ink jet ink composition and a container to receive the ink jet ink composition. In the ink-receiving body described above, the ink jet ink composition is an aqueous ink containing a pigment and a surfactant, the pigment includes at least two types of pigments having chemical structures classified into respective different groups, the surfactant includes a polysiloxane-based surfactant having an HLB value of 10 o...