ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,664, issued on July 28, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Wooden material sheet, wooden material sheet manufacturing method, molding, and molding manufacturing method" was invented by Tomonori Sugiyama (Osaka, Japan), Kazuhiko Kaneuchi (Osaka, Japan) and Takeshi Kiritoshi (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wooden material sheet including: a wooden material made of natural wood; a thermoplastic shape conforming layer and a support layer disposed on one face of the wooden material; and a colored pattern layer, a second adhesive layer, and a first adhesive layer disposed on ...