ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,426, issued on March 17, was assigned to Taisei Kako Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Multilayer body and method for producing multilayer body" was invented by Muneaki Nabeta (Ibaraki, Japan), Yoshihiro Matsushita (Ibaraki, Japan) and Kenji Ohnishi (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment of the present invention relates to a multilayer body and a method for producing the multilayer body, and the multilayer body includes a metal base, and a cured layer 1, the cured layer 1 having a curing ratio of 70 to 90% on the metal base side, and the cured layer 1 having a curing ratio of 50 to 70% on the side opposite to the metal...