ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,872, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to LX HAUSYS LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an artificial marble including one or more stripe regions and a base region on a first surface of the artificial marble, in which the stripe regions extend into the artificial marble, in which the artificial marble includes a section where a sur...