US Patent Issued to KANEKA on April 21 for "Polyhydroxyalkanoate resin composition, molded body of the same, and film or sheet of the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,679, issued on April 21, was assigned to KANEKA Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Polyhydroxyalkanoate resin composition, molded body of the same, and film or sheet of the same" was invented by Tomoaki Hashiguchi (Settsu, Japan) and Shunsuke Sato (Takasago, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a polyhydroxyalkanoate resin composition containing a polyhydroxyalkanoate resin component. In differential scanning calorimetry of the resin composition, a highest melting peak temperature is 130deg C. or higher, and a total crystalline melting enthalpy calculated from all melting peaks is in the range of 20 to 65 J/g. Preferably, the polyhy...