ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,078, issued on July 14, was assigned to Sumitomo Chemical Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Laminated film and bag" was invented by Fumito Urano (Ichihara, Japan), Toshihiko Manami (Ichihara, Japan) and Shingo Katayama (Ichihara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object is to provide a laminated film which contains a recycled resin, has a relatively excellent appearance, and has a relatively small damage property, and a bag containing the laminated film. The laminated film contains three or more resin layers including at least one inner layer and two surface layers. The at least one inner layer contains a recycled resin composition containing...