ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,325, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).
"Decorative laminate including metallic layer and method for producing the same, and metallic coating composition" was invented by Tomohiro Oba (Yamagata, Japan), Shinsuke Kondo (Yamagata, Japan) and Naota Sugiyama (St. Paul, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decorative laminate includes a metallic layer that has excellent metallic glossiness and can reduce or prevent appearance failure, and a method of producing the same, and a metallic coating composition that can form the metallic layer. A decorative laminate includes: at least one select...