US Patent Issued to Enflex on May 13 for "Curved plastic panel and method and device for processing the same" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,513, issued on May 13, was assigned to Enflex Corp. (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

"Curved plastic panel and method and device for processing the same" was invented by Hsin Yuan Chen (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Chih Teng Ku (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Jui Lin Hsu (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Chun Kai Wang (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Yu Ling Chien (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for processing a curved plastic panel is to first form a hard coating layer, an optical function layer, and a printing layer on a flat plastic substrate, and then cut it into a predetermined shape, and then use a hot pressing and curving device to perform a hot pressing and curvin...