ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,107, issued on April 14, was assigned to SAN FANG CHEMICAL INDUSTRY Co. LTD. (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan).

"Environmental-friendly artificial leather and manufacturing method thereof" was invented by Chih-Yi Lin (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan), Kuo-Kuang Cheng (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan), Yung-Yu Fu (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan), Wei-Jie Liao (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan) and Kao-Lung Yang (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is relates to an environmental-friendly artificial leather and a method of manufacturing the same. The manufacturing method of the environmental-friendly artificial leather includes steps in wh...