ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,587, issued on July 29, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).
"Stretchable film and surface coating composition" was invented by Naota Sugiyama (Tokyo), Shinsuke Kondo (Yamagata, Japan), Tatsuya Sato (Tokyo) and Yoshihiko Takeda (Miyagi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Object: Provided is a stretchable film having a low-glass appearance, wherein the low gloss appearance does not readily change even when the film is stretched. Solution: A stretchable film of one embodiment of the present disclosure includes a surface layer including: a binder comprising urethane resin; urethane resin beads having an aver...