US Patent Issued to The Yokohama Rubber on Aug. 25 for "Prepreg and method for manufacturing same" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,969, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to The Yokohama Rubber Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Prepreg and method for manufacturing same" was invented by Mitsuhiro Iwata (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A glass fiber fabric is impregnated with a colored resin having an opacifying property, a colored resin layer formed from the colored resin is provided on a first face of the glass fiber fabric, a transparent resin layer becoming transparent after being cured is provided on a second face of the glass fiber fabric, and thus a prepreg is formed."

The patent was filed on Aug. 20, 2020, under Application No. 17/753,116.

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