ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,452, issued on July 7, was assigned to NIPPON PAINT AUTOMOTIVE COATINGS Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Laminated film and molded article, and production methods therefor" was invented by Jumpei Takahashi (Hirakata, Japan), Takuma Okada (Hirakata, Japan), Kei Takigawa (Hirakata, Japan), Kazuhito Kobayashi (Hirakata, Japan), Takeki Hosokawa (Hirakata, Japan) and Takamitsu Watanabe (Hirakata, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an after-cure type laminated film having a low reflectance. A laminated film comprising: a transparent support substrate, an uncured hard coat layer formed on at least one surface of the transparent suppor...