ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,233,662, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to ILLUMINATION Corp. (Iwata, Japan).
"Hot stamping method" was invented by Yoshiharu Fujita (Iwata, Japan) and Koji Fujita (Iwata, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hot stamping apparatus and a hot stamping method are for collectively decorating a plurality of decoration objects using a decorative sheet. In a hot stamping apparatus, an upper chamber and a lower chamber are partitioned by a partition sheet and pressing bodies, so that decorative sheet pieces can be used instead of a decorative sheet having a large area. Then, by using the decorative sheet pieces, local thermal deformation can...