ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,044, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to TOYOBO Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Method for producing layered body, layered body, and multilayered body" was invented by Tetsuo Okuyama (Otsu, Japan) and Keisuke Matsuo (Otsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This method for producing a layered body includes: a step A for preparing a first layered body by layering a first resin film and a patterned metal layer; a step B for preparing a second resin film having indentations corresponding to the metal layer pattern; and a step C for mating the metal layer pattern and the indentations in the second resin film and bonding together the first layer...