US Patent Issued to TOYOTA BOSHOKU on April 14 for "Molded body, method of producing the same, and recycling method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,863, issued on April 14, was assigned to TOYOTA BOSHOKU K.K. (Aichi, Japan).

"Molded body, method of producing the same, and recycling method" was invented by Keisuke Kato (Toyota, Japan) and Toshiyuki Ario (Ogaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A molded body includes a non-foamed design layer, a foamed intermediate layer, and a non-foamed back layer, laminated in this order and formed of a first, second, and third resin compositions, respectively. The first, second, and third resin compositions contain a polyolefin as a main component. The first resin composition is an impact-resistant resin composition including a polyolefin...