ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,582, issued on June 23, was assigned to TAIWAN SUSTAINABLE MATERIAL TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan).

"Method for making faux wood material with multilayer pattern effect and mixed plastic material for use in the method" was invented by Ruey-Sheny Shih (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for making a faux wood material with a multilayer pattern effect and a mixed plastic material for use in the method involve: performing a compounding process on a thermoplastic elastomer material, a hard-segment-structure material and a foaming agent to form the mixed plastic material; performing through an ext...