ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,229, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to ADEKA Corp. (Tokyo).

"Flame-retardant composition and flame-retardant synthetic resin composition" was invented by Hisashi Sakurai (Saitama, Japan), Yutaka Yonezawa (Saitama, Japan) and Naoko Tanji (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are: a flame retardant composition which can impart excellent flame retardancy to a synthetic resin even when added in a small amount; and a flame-retardant synthetic resin composition which contains the flame retardant composition and a resin and exhibits excellent flame retardancy. The flame retardant composition contains components (A) and (B),...