ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,940, issued on July 14, was assigned to DAICEL Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Laminated film and flexible device" was invented by Masashi Yokoyama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a laminated film having a high level of surface hardness and excellent bendability, and also having antifouling performance that hardly deteriorates. A laminated film 1 of the present disclosure includes: a support 10; and a resin layer 11 laminated on at least one surface of the support, in which the resin layer satisfies the following Conditions 1, 2 and 3: Condition 1: in a pencil hardness test with a load of 750 g, a pencil hardness is F or gre...