US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL on Dec. 23 for "Molding material comprising a group of saponified ethylene-vinyl ester-based copolymer pellets and molding method using same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,538, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL Corp. (Tokyo).

"Molding material comprising a group of saponified ethylene-vinyl ester-based copolymer pellets and molding method using same" was invented by Daichi Nishimura (Osaka, Japan), Makoto Hatanaka (Osaka, Japan) and Shintaro Usui (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A molding material comprising a pellet group of at least 20 saponified ethylene-vinyl ester-based copolymer pellets, wherein at least 95% of the pellets have a surface that is substantially a single closed surface, and when a maximum outer diameter of a pellet is taken as a long diameter and a m...