ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,128, issued on June 3, was assigned to TOPPAN INC. (Tokyo).
"Decorative sheet, decorative material including the same, and method for producing decorative sheet" was invented by Koichi Sagawa (Tokyo), Takashi Tominaga (Tokyo), Takahi Orihara (Tokyo) and Yusuke Taniguchi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decorative sheet is provided that includes a paper substrate, a printed pattern layer arranged to face a major surface of the paper substrate, and a single-layer or multilayered surface protective layer arranged to face the pattern layer, the surface protective layer comprising a coating layer as an outermost layer of the decorat...