US Patent Issued to TOTO on July 21 for "Structural member" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,007, issued on July 21, was assigned to TOTO Ltd. (Fukuoka, Japan).

"Structural member" was invented by Morio Hosokawa (Fukuoka, Japan) and Tatsuya Koga (Fukuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A structural member 10 has a base material 100 and a protective film 200 covering the surface S1 of the base material 100. When a section obtained by cutting the base material 100 perpendicularly to the surface S1 thereof is defined as a cross-section, a shape of a line corresponding to the surface S1 of the base material 100 in the cross-section is defined as a surface shape, and Fourier transformation is performed on a function represe...