US Patent Issued to Dai Nippon Printing on March 17 for "Decorative sheet and decorative member" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,667, issued on March 17, was assigned to Dai Nippon Printing Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Decorative sheet and decorative member" was invented by Hironaga Usui (Tokyo) and Natsuo Sugita (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decorative sheet includes a substrate, a surface protective layer that covers the substrate, and raised portions situated between the substrate and the surface protective layer. The raised portions face first regions of the surface protective layer. The raised portions include a first binder resin, and first particles of which an average particle size is 10 micro metre or more. The surface protective layer includes a sec...