ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,285, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to TORAY INDUSTRIES Inc. (Tokyo).
"Artificial leather and method for manufacturing the same" was invented by Haruka Oura (Osaka, Japan), Tatsuya Hagiwara (Anpachi-gun, Japan), Misao Omori (Otsu, Japan) and Yukihiro Matsuzaki (Nagoya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to provide artificial leather having both strength (in particular, tensile strength and tear strength), surface appearance, and a dense feeling in artificial leather including a fiber-entangled body containing a nonwoven fabric made of ultrafine fibers containing a large amount of inorganic particles (in particular, meta...