ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,469, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to KANEKA Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Blow-molded article and method for producing the same" was invented by Yoshiaki Matsuoka (Settsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A blow-molded article contains a reaction product of a poly(3-hydroxyalkanoate) resin component and an organic peroxide. The resin component contains a copolymer (A) which is a copolymer of 3-hydroxybutyrate units and other hydroxyalkanoate units and in which the content of the other hydroxyalkanoate units is from 1 to 6 mol % and a copolymer (B) which is a copolymer of 3-hydroxybutyrate units and other hydroxyalkanoate units and in w...