ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,482, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Dai Nippon Printing Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Decorative sheet, decorative-sheet-attached display device, sheet article, and method of manufacturing decorative sheet" was invented by Shunji Fukuda (Tokyo-to, Japan), Shinya Yoda (Tokyo-to, Japan), Tsubasa Takakura (Tokyo-to, Japan), Youhei Kakuba (Tokyo-to, Japan) and Hiroyuki Kuniyasu (Tokyo-to, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decorative sheet includes a decorative layer. Holes arranged in a plurality of directions are provided in the decorative layer. An average of values of an array pitch of holes arranged in a first array direction, in whi...