US Patent Issued to KMEW on Oct. 21 for "Construction material, decorative member, and method for manufacturing decorative member" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,782, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to KMEW Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Construction material, decorative member, and method for manufacturing decorative member" was invented by Nobuchika Okayama (Mie, Japan), Hideo Aikawa (Nara, Japan), Tomohisa Yamamoto (Nara, Japan), Ryoko Maruyama (Osaka, Japan) and Arisa Miyake (Nara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A construction material includes a base material. The base material includes a low-gloss region having a 60deg gloss value of smaller than and a high-gloss region having a 60deg gloss value of larger than or equal to 8. The 60deg gloss value of the low-gloss region and the 60deg ...