ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,407, issued on March 17, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).
"Hard coat laminate" was invented by Nobuhiko Takano (Minamiashigara, Japan) and Yoshihiko Mochizuki (Minamiashigara, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a hard coat laminate having excellent abrasion resistance and heat resistance. The hard coat laminate includes: a substrate; and a base layer disposed on one main surface side of the substrate, in which the base layer contains inorganic nanoparticles, the base layer contains oxygen atoms, carbon atoms, and silicon atoms, the base layer has, on a surface side opposite to the substrate, a first region in wh...