US Patent Issued to LX HAUSYS on Dec. 30 for "Artificial marble having high light transmittance" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,397, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to LX HAUSYS LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Artificial marble having high light transmittance" was invented by Donghee Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Hongkwan Cho (Seoul, South Korea), Yechan Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Hyewon Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Junyoung Seo (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an artificial marble having a total transmittance of 6 or greater and 20 or less when the total transmittance is measured using a turbidimeter (NDH 5000 available from Nippon Denshoku) for an artificial marble sample with a size of 7 cm in width, 7 cm in length...