ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,521, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to EARTH CREATE Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Laminate and frozen food container and packaging" was invented by Yoshiyuki Nishimiya (Osaka, Japan), Yasutaka Yanase (Osaka, Japan), Noriyuki Hayashi (Fukui, Japan) and Kentaro Nagano (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laminate according to an aspect of the present invention includes an inner layer and a pair of outer layers laminated on both sides of the inner layer. The inner layer contains an inorganic filler and a first thermoplastic resin. Each of the outer layers contains a second thermoplastic resin. The inorganic filler includes calcium ...