ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,372, issued on July 28, was assigned to Plantic Technologies Ltd (Altona, Australia).

"Resin composition" was invented by Masahiko Ota (Kurashiki, Japan), Akihiro Kotaka (Kurashiki, Japan) and Nicholas John McCaffrey (Altona, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a resin composition capable of forming a coated product that exhibits low adhesion to a metal roll during production and is superior in oxygen barrier property and capable of forming a film or sheet superior in oxygen barrier property, impact strength under low humidity and color tone. The resin composition of the present invention contains 50 to 98 parts by m...