US Patent Issued to Okamoto Industries on May 13 for "Vehicle interior materials and their manufacturing methods therefor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,758, issued on May 13, was assigned to Okamoto Industries Inc. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle interior materials and their manufacturing methods therefor" was invented by Hajime Miyamoto (Tokyo), Masahiko Nakayama (Tokyo), Shoichiro Negishi (Tokyo), Yasuki Kamo (Tokyo) and Fumihiko Inoue (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Interior material for vehicle including a foamed sheet layer having a foam surface opposing a first rear surface of the first sheet layer, a first sheet layer joined along the foam surface, and a second sheet layer joined to a part of a first surface of the first sheet layer, bonded together while a surface boundary...