US Patent Issued to Dai Nippon Printing on April 14 for "Cosmetic material and production method for cosmetic material" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,163, issued on April 14, was assigned to Dai Nippon Printing Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Cosmetic material and production method for cosmetic material" was invented by Hironaga Usui (Wako, Japan), Yoshio Sukegawa (Fujimi, Japan) and Hideo Tanaka (Toshima-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decorative material that can give an excellent three-dimensional effect, has a large change in shadowed parts depending on observation angle, and has advanced design aesthetics is provided. A decorative material, wherein on a first principal surface side, a plurality of independent closed regions each having a groove-shaped parallel recess and proje...