US Patent Issued to Sumitomo Electric Industries on June 30 for "Resin composition and power cable" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,692, issued on June 30, was assigned to Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Resin composition and power cable" was invented by Satoshi Yamasaki (Osaka, Japan), Fumitoshi Iyoda (Osaka, Japan) and Takanori Yamazaki (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A resin composition, including: a resin component containing propylene units, and a resistance-imparting agent, wherein the resistance-imparting agent is a monomer having a phenol skeleton with hydrogen or an alkyl group having 1 to 3 carbon atoms, bonded to at least one of ortho positions to the hydroxyl group of the phenol skeleton, and has a melting point of 215d...