US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on Sept. 30 for "Laminate having inorganic nanoparticle-containing surface layer that exhibits appearance with low gloss and inorganic nanoparticle-containing radiation-curable ink" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,568, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Laminate having inorganic nanoparticle-containing surface layer that exhibits appearance with low gloss and inorganic nanoparticle-containing radiation-curable ink" was invented by Naota Sugiyama (Kanagawa, Japan), Katsuya Ono (Yamagata, Japan), Richard J. Pokorny (Maplewood, Minn.), Taiki Ihara (Tokyo), Hiroki Hayashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Sonja S. Mackey (St. Paul, Minn.) and Hideyuki Hatanaka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "[Object] To provide a laminate having inorganic nanoparticle-containing surface layer that exhibits a low gloss appe...