US Patent Issued to MAZDA MOTOR on April 1 for "Multilayered coating film and coated article" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,264,260, issued on April 1, was assigned to MAZDA MOTOR Corp. (Hiroshima, Japan).

"Multilayered coating film and coated article" was invented by Takakazu Yamane (Hiroshima, Japan), Keiichi Okamoto (Hiroshima, Japan), Kouji Teramoto (Hiroshima, Japan), Ryuji Nonaka (Hiroshima, Japan), Kazuteru Tamai (Hiroshima, Japan), Eiichi Kawase (Hiroshima, Japan), Tomohiro Fujimoto (Hiroshima, Japan) and Takayoshi Nakamoto (Hiroshima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayer coating film includes a lustrous layer containing a luster material and a colored layer containing a reddish coloring agent, and having translucency. Regarding a Y value...