US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Feb. 10 for "Method for producing repair sheet and method for managing repair sheet" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,786, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Method for producing repair sheet and method for managing repair sheet" was invented by Takayuki Nagai (Toyota, Japan), Eisaku Okada (Toyota, Japan), Shuji Nakagawa (Toyota, Japan), Kazuhide Tabata (Toyota, Japan), Masao Hayashida (Toyota, Japan) and Keisuke Ito (Okazaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method for producing a repair sheet includes: attaching a nonpolar resin plate to an appropriate position on a dummy vehicle body corresponding to a repair area including a coating film in need of repair; supplying the dummy vehicle body to a topcoa...