US Patent Issued to KANEKA on Jan. 20 for "Method for producing polyhydroxyalkanoate and use of same" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,910, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to KANEKA Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Method for producing polyhydroxyalkanoate and use of same" was invented by Masaru Hirano (Takasago, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The object of the present invention is to provide a production method which makes it possible to obtain a PHA with a simple operation. The object can be attained by providing a method for producing a polyhydroxyalkanoate, the method including the steps of: (a) preparing an aqueous polyhydroxyalkanoate suspension having a pH of not more than 7; and (b) heating the aqueous polyhydroxyalkanoate suspension, prepared in the step (a), a...