ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,764, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Dai Nippon Printing Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Decorative sheet, and decorative-sheet-included display device" was invented by Tsubasa Takakura (Tokyo-to, Japan), Kenichi Yamauchi (Tokyo-to, Japan), Naoto Yamanaka (Tokyo-to, Japan) and Masato Mizuochi (Tokyo-to, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a decorative sheet includes a step of stacking a light-shielding film and a design film on a surface of a base material film and a step of removing a part of the light-shielding film and a part of the design film by radiating laser light from positions on the base material film and ...