ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,801, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to KURARAY Co. LTD. (Kurashiki, Japan).
"Colored resin sheet and leather-like sheet" was invented by Daisuke Matsuda (Okayama, Japan), Masato Warita (Okayama, Japan), Takehiro Sato (Okayama, Japan) and Yuta Akagi (Okayama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A colored resin sheet includes a resin and a colorant dispersed in the resin, and has an average value of visible light transmittances for a red range of a wavelength of 680 to 780 nm, of 50% or more. The colored resin sheet has a combination of a lightness L* value and an average value of light transmittances for an entire visible light rang...