ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,697, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Dai Nippon Printing Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Multilayer body, method for producing multilayer body, film for lamination, and image display device" was invented by Yoshinari Matsuda (Okayama, Japan), Sho Suzuki (Sendai, Japan), Osamu Seike (Moriya, Japan), Jun Ueda (Mihara, Japan), Ryohei Miyata (Neyagawa, Japan), Kiyotaka Matsui (Nagareyama, Japan) and Atsushi Horii (Okayama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a laminate in which when the protective plate breaks due to an impact, not only the scattering of large broken pieces but the scattering of powdery fine broken pieces can be s...