ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,143, issued on May 5, was assigned to Morphotonics Holding B.V. (Veldhoven, Netherlands).

"Apparatus and process for replicating a texture" was invented by Alexander Sebastiaan Kommeren (Geldrop, Netherlands), Jan Matthijs Ter Meulen (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Bram Johannes Titulaer (Veldhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process is for replicating a texture. A method continuously produces a flex stamp and applies the flex stamp in texturing a resin by combination of a roll-to-plate and a plate-to-roll process. An apparatus is suited for the continuous process."

The patent was filed on July 16, 2021, under Applicati...