ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,232, issued on July 7, was assigned to Toray Advanced Film Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Laminate and method of manufacturing laminate" was invented by Yoshikazu Sato (Iwase-gun, Japan), Yoshiro Murofushi (Iwase-gun, Japan), Kodai Tokunaga (Otsu, Japan) and Makoto Sato (Otsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laminate has a layer A on at least one side of a base material, in which the layer A contains at least aluminum (Al) and oxygen (O), and when a site corresponding to 5.0 to 25.0%, a site corresponding to 40.0 to 60.0%, and a site corresponding to 75.0 to 95.0%, in terms of length in a depth direction in the layer A, are defined as an X...