ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,256, issued on March 24, was assigned to KURARAY Co. LTD. (Okayama, Japan).

"Printed napped sheet and napped sheet for printing" was invented by Daisuke Matsuda (Okayama, Japan), Masashi Meguro (Okayama, Japan) and Michinori Fujisawa (Okayama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a printed napped sheet or a printing sheet including a fabric having a napped surface, wherein the napped surface is printed and has, as measured by a surface roughness measurement in accordance with ISO 25178, an arithmetic mean height (Sa) of a predetermined value or less (e.g., 30 micro metre or less) in both a grain direction and a reverse ...