ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,492, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Comadur SA (Le Locle, Switzerland).
"Method for decorating a substrate" was invented by Jan Lintymer (Mamirolle, France) and Alexis Boulmay (Valdahon, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for decorating a substrate which includes the succession of the following steps: provide the substrate; deposit a layer of a sacrificial material over a surface of the substrate; structure the sacrificial material layer so as to create in this sacrificial material layer a plurality of cavities to form a decorative or technical pattern; eliminate the sacrificial material layer except at the location whe...