ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,767, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to DIC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Fiber base material and artificial leather" was invented by Tomohiro Tetsui (Takaishi, Japan) and Miwa Ueguchi (Takaishi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A task to be achieved by the invention is to provide a fiber substrate having excellent filling state of a urethane resin and excellent hand feeling. The present invention provides a fiber substrate filled with a urethane resin (X), which is formed from a water dispersion of the urethane resin (X), wherein the water dispersion has a urethane resin (X) content of 50 to 80% by mass, and the water dispersion contains no o...