ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,767,760, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to KOREA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Multiblock copolymer containing polylactic acid and polyamide for toughening polylactic acid and method for preparing the same" was invented by Jihoon Shin (Daejeon, South Korea), Sae Hume Park (Daejeon, South Korea) and Seungju Hong (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a multiblock copolymer containing polylactide and polyamide for toughening polylactide and a method for preparing the same, wherein the multiblock copolymer containing polylactide and polyamide has an effect of overcoming the br...