ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,828, issued on May 19, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Functional material and method for producing same" was invented by Mayu Kurata (Tochigi, Japan) and Takehiro Mugishima (Tochigi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A functional material has a metal substrate and exhibits at least one of the following: an antimold action, an antimicrobial action, and an antiviral action. The functional material is provided with: a metal substrate produced by forming a zinc layer on the surface of an aluminum substrate; and a functional film that is a zinc phosphate film formed on the surface of the metal substrate. A micron-order u...