US Patent Issued to Dai Nippon Printing on Sept. 23 for "Decorative material, laminate, and method for manufacturing decorative material" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,526, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Dai Nippon Printing Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Decorative material, laminate, and method for manufacturing decorative material" was invented by Takafumi Kaida (Sagamihara, Japan), Yuji Tanaka (Atsugi, Japan), Yuki Aoyama (Odawara, Japan) and Ryouichi Satou (Aiko-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decorative material having a design with an excellent tactile and a visual effect. The decorative material has a texture region on a base material, the texture region is composed of: a plurality of projection regions containing a plurality of particles with a particle size of 5 micro metre or more a...