ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,208, issued on April 8, was assigned to NICHIHA Corp. (Nagoya, Japan).
"Wall material and wall-material building structure" was invented by Satoshi Ikeda (Nagoya, Japan), Tomomi Hattori (Nagoya, Japan), Tomoki Matsuoka (Nagoya, Japan) and Hiroki Norita (Nagoya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "[Object] To provide a wall material and a wall-material building structure that are suitable for achieving high water resistance in the wall-material building structure.[Solution] A wall material X of the present invention has a surface-side joint portion 10 and a rear-side joint portion 20. A first resin film 31 is provided on at least one...