US Patent Issued to TOYO KOHAN on June 10 for "Roughened nickel-plated sheet" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,928, issued on June 10, was assigned to TOYO KOHAN Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Roughened nickel-plated sheet" was invented by Shinichirou Horie (Kudamatsu, Japan), Etsuro Tsutsumi (Kudamatsu, Japan), Toshifumi Koyanagi (Kudamatsu, Japan), Koh Yoshioka (Kudamatsu, Japan), Kyoko Takano (Kudamatsu, Japan), Shunki Obata (Kudamatsu, Japan), Satoko Harada (Kudamatsu, Japan), Keishi Katsura (Kudamatsu, Japan) and Misato Ueno (Kudamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A roughened nickel-plated sheet including a roughened nickel layer on at least one surface of a metal substrate as the outermost layer thereof, the roughened nickel layer being fo...