US Patent Issued to KURARAY on Nov. 3 for "Multilayer structure and multilayer tube" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,779,829, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to KURARAY Co. LTD. (Okayama, Japan).

"Multilayer structure and multilayer tube" was invented by Makoto Suzuki (Kurashiki, Japan) and Mizuko Oshita (Kurashiki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a multilayer structure and a multilayer tube which have superior gas barrier properties and in which occurrence of cracks at a time of deforming by heating is inhibited. The multilayer structure includes at least a layer (X) constituted from a resin composition (x), the resin composition (x) containing: an ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer (A); and an acid-modified ethylene-Alpha-olefin copolym...