US Patent Issued to Dai Nippon Printing on Sept. 2 for "Decorative material" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,680, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Dai Nippon Printing Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Decorative material" was invented by Yasuhiro Akita (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decorative material has a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface and includes a base material layer and a surface protection layer disposed closer to the first surface than the base material layer is. The base material layer has a plurality of grooves in a surface thereof closer to the first surface, and at least a subset of the grooves has a filled portion therein. The average specular glossiness at 85deg of the first surface pursuant to JIS ...