US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on Aug. 11 for "Laminate including surface layer having scratch resistance and matte properties and surface coating composition" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,803, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Laminate including surface layer having scratch resistance and matte properties and surface coating composition" was invented by Keisuke Kato (Yamagata, Japan), Shinsuke Kondo (Yamagata, Japan), Ken Egashira (Kanagawa, Japan), Naota Sugiyama (St. Paul, Minn.), Yorinobu Takamatsu (Kanagawa, Japan), Yusaku Yoshiike (Kanagawa, Japan) and Masaaki Furusawa (Yamagata, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a laminate including a surface layer that has excellent matte properties and can obtain good results in both the needle scratch test and t...