US Patent Issued to UBE MATERIAL INDUSTRIES on March 31 for "Degradation promoter for aliphatic polyester biodegradable resin, biodegradable resin composition, and method for promoting degradation of aliphatic polyester biodegradable resin" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,201, issued on March 31, was assigned to UBE MATERIAL INDUSTRIES LTD. (Ube, Japan).

"Degradation promoter for aliphatic polyester biodegradable resin, biodegradable resin composition, and method for promoting degradation of aliphatic polyester biodegradable resin" was invented by Tetsuo Takayama (Yonezawa, Japan), Toru Inagaki (Ube, Japan) and Yuzo Kato (Ube, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The degradation promoter for an aliphatic polyester biodegradable resin according to the present invention contains basic magnesium sulfate."

The patent was filed on March 1, 2021, under Application No. 17/913,287.

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