ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,932, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to TEIJIN Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Method of producing curved member and polycarbonate resin laminate with hard coat layer for heat bending" was invented by Tatsuya Ekinaka (Osaka, Japan), Takashi Yoda (Osaka, Japan), Hiroshi Kishimoto (Osaka, Japan) and Tomoaki Akaoka (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a method of producing a curved member, the method containing preparing a polycarbonate resin laminate with a hard coat layer for heat bending that includes a permeation layer (B layer) and a hard coat layer (C layer) sequentially layered on at least one surface of a polycarbonat...