US Patent Issued to DEXERIALS on Jan. 28 for "Master, transferred object, and method of producing master" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,208,565, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to DEXERIALS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Master, transferred object, and method of producing master" was invented by Masanao Kikuchi (Tokyo), Hiroshi Tazawa (Tokyo), Asahiko Nogami (Tokyo) and Kazuya Hayashibe (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a master in which a more complicated microstructure is formed, a transferred object obtained by using the master, and a method of producing the master. A plurality of concave-convex groups each including a plurality of concavities or convexities are provided on a base material apart from each other. Average widths of areas occupied by the concavities or...