ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,452, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to HONSHU CHEMICAL INDUSTRY Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Method for producing liquid-crystal polyester processed product" was invented by Ryota Imai (Wakayama, Japan) and Katsuhiko Kaneshige (Wakayama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a liquid-crystal polyester processed product having improved adhesion, includes a preliminary step of providing a formed body of a liquid-crystal polyester resin including a repeating unit represented by general formula (1); a step (I) of performing an oxidation treatment on a surface of the liquid-crystal polyester resin formed body; and a step (I...