US Patent Issued to KURARAY on April 14 for "Resin composition, molded product, laminate, thermoformed container, blow-molded container, film, agricultural film, plant medium, and pipe" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,848, issued on April 14, was assigned to KURARAY Co. LTD. (Okayama, Japan).

"Resin composition, molded product, laminate, thermoformed container, blow-molded container, film, agricultural film, plant medium, and pipe" was invented by Mizuko Oshita (Kurashiki, Japan) and Yasuhiro Nonaka (Kurashiki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are: a resin composition which inhibits the generation of aggregates at the time of melt molding and enables obtaining a molded product which has sufficient heat/light resistance and is unlikely to break down into microplastics after being discarded, the above-mentioned characteristics being su...