ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,368, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to NIPPON STEEL Chemical & Material Co. Ltd. (Tokyo) and Mazda Motor Corp. (Aki-gun, Japan).

"Moisture absorption film layered product and manufacturing method therefor" was invented by Takashi Saito (Tokyo), Tetsuya Maeda (Aki-gun, Japan), Hiroto Matsui (Aki-gun, Japan), Mitsuyoshi Kawabe (Aki-gun, Japan) and Daiji Katsura (Aki-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a moisture absorption film layered product that can be photocured by using ultraviolet ray, which can achieve curing in a short time, and that has both excellent defogging properties and abrasion resistance. A moistur...