US Patent Issued to BASF COATINGS on April 14 for "Topcoat layer, a lamination film containing the same, and a decorative article decorated by said lamination film" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,878, issued on April 14, was assigned to BASF COATINGS GMBH (Muenster, Germany).

"Topcoat layer, a lamination film containing the same, and a decorative article decorated by said lamination film" was invented by Etsumi Ito (Yokohama, Japan), Takeshi Tsunoda (Yokohama, Japan), Hideki Yamashita (Yokohama, Japan) and Hideki Suetsugu (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a topcoat layer (A) having a total elongation and pencil hardness in a specific range in the temperature range of from 20 to 120deg C., which is formed by applying a coating of coating material (D) including essential components acrylic pol...