ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,601, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to TBM Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Printing sheet and method for producing printing sheet" was invented by Hiroshi Nakamura (Tokyo) and Koji Idei (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present invention is to provide a printing sheet having a coated layer for ink receiving on at least one surface of a substrate, in which the printing sheet has excellent printability and excellent antistatic performance, being less likely to cause paper jams or other troubles during printing, and has excellent properties such as water resistance and weather resistance, and a method for producing the same. ...