US Patent Issued to Dai Nippon Printing on April 15 for "Raised woodgrain finish decorative material" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,273, issued on April 15, was assigned to Dai Nippon Printing Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Raised woodgrain finish decorative material" was invented by Saori Miyazaki (Shinjuku-ku, Japan), Masanori Ueno (Fujimi, Japan) and Hironobu Nishimura (Shinjuku-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an inexpensive raised woodgrain finish decorative material that exhibits design properties similar to those of actual wood by the effect of reproducing visual appearance and feeling and has a short production timeline. The raised woodgrain finish decorative material has a substrate, a first raised section provided on one surface of the substrate,...