US Patent Issued to UNILIN on Aug. 12 for "Partially cured coated sheet" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,940, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to UNILIN BV (Wielsbeke, Belgium).

"Partially cured coated sheet" was invented by Benjamin Clement (Waregem, Belgium), Sam Ledegen (Ghent, Belgium) and Marijn Seynaeve (Moen, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet includes a support layer and a coating layer on a side of the support layer. The coating layer is partially cured. The coating layer has carbon-carbon double bonds. The relative amount of carbon-carbon double bonds is higher at the surface of the coating layer than at the contact surface of the coating layer with the support layer. Methods are disclosed to manufacture such sheets...