ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,410, issued on March 31, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).

"Embossable non-solvent PU sheet, a laminate and a synthetic leather comprising the same" was invented by Zhong Kai Zhang (Shanghai), Feng Qin (Shanghai), Hang Yu Xu (Shanghai) and Chun Yi Chen (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is an embossable non-solvent polyurethane sheet, which is formed from a non-solvent polyurethane system including a polyol component (a) and an isocyanate component (b), where the polyol component (a) includes (a-1) at least one polyol having a functionality in a range of from 1.5 to 2.5; and (a-2) optio...