ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,030, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to SEKISUI KASEI Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Fine resin particle and application thereof" was invented by Kohei Tanaka (Osaka, Japan) and Kohei Mitani (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention has a problem of providing a fine resin particle that is useful as an anti-blocking agent or other agents, has sufficient resistance to the thermal load applied when compounded with resins, shows sufficiently lowered residual amount of unreacted monomers in the fine resin particle, and, furthermore, has a color tone that does not affect optical properties even when used in optical members, t...