ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,387, issued on March 17, was assigned to SANYO CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Aldehyde scavenger and resin composition" was invented by Ai Kita (Kyoto, Japan) and Makoto Matsumoto (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention aims to provide an aldehyde scavenger which has excellent aldehyde scavenging properties and yields a resin composition with excellent moldability (mold fouling resistance) when added to a resin. The present invention relates to an aldehyde scavenger containing at least one of: (1) a copolymer (A) containing a (meth)acrylamide (a) and an acid group-containing unsaturated monomer ...