ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,744, issued on July 1, was assigned to DIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Polyarylene sulfide resin composition, molded article obtained by molding same, laminate, and production method thereof" was invented by Tomomichi Kanda (Ichihara, Japan) and Takamichi Aoki (Ichihara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is a molded article containing a polyarylene sulfide resin, a thermoplastic resin other than the polyarylene sulfide resin, and a metal oxide containing at least one of copper or chromium. The polyarylene sulfide resin forms a continuous phase, and a dispersed phase containing the thermoplastic resin and the metal oxide i...