ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,282, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to TOPPAN INC. (Tokyo).
"Thermal transfer medium and information recording body" was invented by Seiko Urata (Tokyo) and Satoshi Gocho (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermal transfer medium includes a support, and a plurality of ink panels individually made of a thermal transfer ink. The plurality of ink panels include two or more ink panels selected from the group consisting of a first ink panel in which the thermal transfer ink is a first ink containing a specified pigment as a color material, a second ink panel in which the thermal transfer ink is a second ink containing a specified seco...