ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,602, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to C.I.TAKIRON Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Decorative sheet" was invented by Hitomi Ono (Osaka, Japan) and Anna Yonezawa (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decorative sheet includes a base and a surface layer provided on the base. The surface layer includes an ultraviolet-cured layer provided on a surface of the base and an excimer light-cured layer provided on a surface of the ultraviolet-cured layer. The surface layer contains urethane acrylate and a vinyl chloride-vinyl acetate copolymer, and the mass ratio between the urethane acrylate and the vinyl chloride-vinyl acetate copolymer in...