US Patent Issued to TOTO on July 21 for "Structural member and method for producing the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,030, issued on July 21, was assigned to TOTO Ltd. (Fukuoka, Japan).

"Structural member and method for producing the same" was invented by Yasutaka Nitta (Fukuoka, Japan) and Tatsuya Koga (Fukuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A structural member 10 includes a base material 100 and a protective film 200 formed by depositing a material while applying an impact force to a surface 110 of the base material 100. Provided that an index indicating a degree of a local denseness of the protective film 200 is defined as a denseness index, the value of the denseness index at a first portion that is a portion of the protective film 200 in...