US Patent Issued to MAZDA MOTOR on May 19 for "Multilayered coating film and coated article" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,681, issued on May 19, was assigned to MAZDA MOTOR Corp. (Hiroshima, Japan).

"Multilayered coating film and coated article" was invented by Takakazu Yamane (Aki-gun, Japan), Keiichi Okamoto (Aki-gun, Japan), Kouji Teramoto (Aki-gun, Japan), Ryuji Nonaka (Aki-gun, Japan), Kazuteru Tamai (Aki-gun, Japan), Eiichi Kawase (Aki-gun, Japan), Tomohiro Fujimoto (Aki-gun, Japan) and Takayoshi Nakamoto (Aki-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayer coating film includes a lustrous layer containing a luster material, and a colored layer stacked on the lustrous layer, containing a reddish coloring agent, and having translucency. For t...