ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,183, issued on May 20, was assigned to TORAY INDUSTRIES Inc. (Tokyo).
"Flame-resistant layered molded article" was invented by Makoto Wada (Nagoya, Japan), Masaru Harada (Otsu, Japan), Kazuya Okubo (Nagoya, Japan), Osamu Niwa (Nagoya, Japan) and Hiroshi Kiyama (Nagoya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is a flame-resistant layered molded article in which one surface of a fiber sheet material containing at least infusible fibers A, particularly a fiber sheet material containing infusible fibers A and thermoplastic fibers B, is exposed to the outside of a molded article, and in which at least a part of the othe...