ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,359, issued on April 7, was assigned to MITSUI CHEMICALS INC. (Tokyo).

"Resin composition for forming optical component, molded product, and optical component" was invented by Yuki Hashimoto (Ichihara, Japan), Yasuyuki Soeda (Tokyo), Hisahiro Kato (Ichihara, Japan) and Takayuki Okuno (Ichihara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a resin composition for forming an optical component, the resin composition including a cyclic olefin-based polymer and an anthraquinone-based dye, in which the cyclic olefin-based polymer includes at least one selected from a copolymer of ethylene or an Alpha-olefin and a cyclic olefin, and a r...