ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,710, issued on July 1, was assigned to EMS-Patent AG (Domat/Ems, Switzerland).

"Semi-crystalline copolyamides, moulding compounds comprising same and their use, and mouldings manufactured from same" was invented by Philipp Harder (Chur, Switzerland), Christian Schubert (Domat/Ems, Switzerland) and Ronny Ebling (Domat/Ems, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to semi-crystalline copolyamides and to moulding compounds manufactured from same that contain at least one filler, and optionally additives in addition to the semi-crystalline copolyamide. The invention equally relates to mouldings manufactured...