ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,677, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Sheet material and forming method" was invented by Yushi Shinno (Tokyo), Daichi Tsunoda (Tokyo), Shiori Abe (Tokyo) and Masahiko Nakayama (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a sheet material in which a skin material can be adhered to a base material. A sheet material 2 for forming a design surface of a product by being adhered to base materials 68a, 68b includes a sheet-like skin material 20, and a sheet-like stretchable material 25 laminated on a rear surface side of the skin material 20 and having higher stretchability than the skin material 20. The...