US Patent Issued to KURARAY on June 10 for "Napped artificial leather and method for producing the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,952, issued on June 10, was assigned to KURARAY Co. LTD. (Kurashiki, Japan).

"Napped artificial leather and method for producing the same" was invented by Hiroyuki Hishida (Okayama, Japan), Kimio Nakayama (Okayama, Japan) and Masashi Meguro (Okayama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A napped artificial leather includes: a fiber-entangled body obtained by entangling ultrafine fibers; and an elastic polymer impregnated into the fiber-entangled body. The napped artificial leather has, on at least one side thereof, a napped surface formed by napping the ultrafine fibers. The ultrafine fibers contain 0.2 to 8 mass % of carbon black an...