ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,010, issued on June 30, was assigned to Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Co. Inc. (Chiyoda-ku, Japan) and The University of Tokyo (Tokyo).

"Method for producing polymeric molded product" was invented by Akira Maehara (Niigata, Japan), Tadahisa Iwata (Tokyo), Taku Omura (Tokyo) and Taizo Kabe (Sayo-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present invention is to provide a method for producing a polymeric molded product, which does not undergo a considerable molecular weight reduction during melt-molding, even in a polymer may easily lose its molecular weight when it is in a melted state. The present invention provides a metho...