ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,270, issued on March 24, was assigned to TORAY INDUSTRIES Inc. (Tokyo).
"Artificial leather and method for manufacturing same" was invented by Takuya Shibano (Otsu, Japan), Shunichi Kimura (Gifu, Japan), Satoshi Yanagisawa (Gifu, Japan) and Yukihiro Matsuzaki (Otsu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an artificial leather that achieves both a soft texture and excellent durability, and a method for manufacturing the same, the leather comprising: a fibrous base material formed from superfine fibers having an average single fiber diameter of 0.1-10 micro metre; and a polymeric elastic body, where the polymer elastic body ...