ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,517, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to KURARAY Co. LTD. (Okayama, Japan).
"Aqueous dispersion, aqueous emulsion, coating agent, coated paper, multilayer structure, packing material, adhesive agent, and aqueous emulsion production method" was invented by Taeko Kaharu (Chiba, Japan), Yoriko Imaoka (Okayama, Japan), Yuta Taoka (Houston) and Ayumu Yamamoto (Okayama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides an aqueous dispersion that enables production of a film having improved water resistance, tensile elastic modulus, and stress at break, and with which a decrease of strain at break can be reduced in the fi...