ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,155, issued on March 17, was assigned to KURARAY Co. LTD. (Kurashiki, Japan).
"Layered formed sheet and method for manufacturing the same" was invented by Yoshinori Hitomi (Okayama, Japan), Akira Imagawa (Okayama, Japan), Takafumi Horikoshi (Okayama, Japan), Atsuhisa Ogawa (Okayama, Japan), Yoshihiro Iwasaki (Osaka, Japan), Hisashi Suemori (Kurashiki, Japan) and Yoshihiro Higashimoto (Yamatokoriyama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a layered formed sheet comprising two or more formed sheets each formed from a curable composition comprising (A) an aluminosilicate source, (B) an alkaline metal hyd...