US Patent Issued to Sumitomo Chemical on Sept. 15 for "Thermoplastic resin pellets and method for manufacturing thermoplastic resin pellets" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,728, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Sumitomo Chemical Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Thermoplastic resin pellets and method for manufacturing thermoplastic resin pellets" was invented by Tasuku Tamura (Chiba, Japan), Takayuki Sugiyama (Tsukuba, Japan) and Soichiro Maruyama (Tsukuba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a thermoplastic resin pellet containing a thermoplastic resin (A) and a fibrous filler (B), in which a length-weighted average fiber length of the fibrous filler (B) is 5 mm or more and less than 50 mm, a pellet length of the thermoplastic resin pellet and the length-weighted average fiber length of the fib...