ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,593, issued on March 3, was assigned to SUN CHEMICAL Corp. (Parsippany, N.J.).

"Lamination primers and inks for aqueous inkjet printing" was invented by Derek Illsley (Midsomer Norton, Great Britain), Joanne Guite (Newhey Rochdale, Great Britain), Daniel Morris (Newhey Rochdale, Great Britain) and Christopher Daniel (Midsomer Norton, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Digitally printed laminates prepared from an aqueous primer coating composition and an aqueous pigmented inkjet printing ink wherein the primer coating composition comprises: (a) a water-dispersible polymer and a multivalent metal salt; or (b) a water-soluble ...