ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,788, issued on July 29, was assigned to NITTO DENKO Corp. (Ibaraki, Japan).

"Method for manufacturing laminate, method for manufacturing coated article, method for manufacturing bonded structure, thermal transfer sheet, and laminate" was invented by Shigeki Ishiguro (Ibaraki, Japan), Asuka Endo (Ibaraki, Japan), Kayo Shimokawa (Ibaraki, Japan), Yosuke Makihata (Ibaraki, Japan), Ryohei Oban (Ibaraki, Japan) and Kenichi Okada (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a laminate, including: a laminating step of laminating a side of a thermal transfer layer of a thermal tra...