US Patent Issued to KUREHA on March 24 for "Molded product and processed article" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,370, issued on March 24, was assigned to KUREHA Corp. (Tokyo).

"Molded product and processed article" was invented by Takahiro Suga (Tokyo), Takuma Kobayashi (Tokyo), Kiyomi Ohuchi (Tokyo) and Yoshinori Suzuki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a molded product having small anisotropy of strength in a MD direction and a TD direction and a processed article thereof. A molded product (10) includes a glycolic acid polymer and a plurality of fibers (11). The fibers (11) include the fibers oriented in the MD direction and the fibers oriented in a direction along a tangent line to concentric circles in a cross-section ortho...