ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,467, issued on May 27, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).

"Polyamide molding composition for high-gloss applications" was invented by Rainer Xalter (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Torsten Erdmann (Rudolstadt, Germany), Xaver Hopfenspirger (Ludwigshafen, Germany) and Stefan Milimonka (Ludwigshafen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a thermoplastic molding material including a) a mixture of 100 parts by weight of polyamide including aliphatic unbranched C10-12-foundational units and 5 to 100 parts by weight of polyamide 6 and/or polyamide 6/6,6 as component A), and b) 0% to 30% by weight, based ...