US Patent Issued to FUENCE on Jan. 27 for "Polyhydroxyalkanoic acid and method for producing same" (Japanese, Malaysian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,567, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to FUENCE Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Polyhydroxyalkanoic acid and method for producing same" was invented by Kozo Inoue (Tokyo) and K Sudesh Kumar C Kanapathi Pillai (Penang, Malaysia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is an object of the present invention to provide a polyhydroxyalkanoate P(3HB-co-3HHx) comprising 3-hydroxybutanoate and 3-hydroxyhexanoate, the polyhydroxyalkanoate having high melt fluidity and excellent processability.In order to solve the problems described above, the inventors of the present invention found that with regard to a polyhydroxyalkanoate comprising 3-hydroxybutanoate and 3-h...