ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,881, issued on April 14, was assigned to Dongjin Semichem Co. Ltd. (Incheon, South Korea).

"Composition for forming hard coating layer, hard coating layer using the composition, and laminate comprising the hard coating layer" was invented by Eun Soo Shin (Siheung, South Korea), Sung Il Kim (Siheung, South Korea), Hae So Jeon (Siheung, South Korea), Young Min Yoon (Siheung, South Korea), Ki Taek Lee (Siheung, South Korea) and Byong Wook Lee (Siheung, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are a composition for forming a hard coating layer that is easy to mold, a hard coating layer including the composition, and a...