ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,230, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Dai Nippon Printing Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Peel-off sheet, and combination of peel-off sheet and intermediate transfer medium" was invented by Junko Hirokawa (Tokyo), Tadahiro Ishida (Tokyo) and Mitsuhiro Oota (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The peel-off sheet according to the present disclosure includes a first substrate and a peel-off layer, wherein the peel-off layer contains a vinyl chloride-vinyl acetate copolymer and a crystalline polyester, or the peel-off sheet includes a structural component containing particles, wherein the particle size distribution of the particles contained in the ...