ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,653, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to JAPAN POLYETHYLENE Corp. (Tokyo).

"Polymer composition for lamination and laminated body using same" was invented by Masahiro Ueno (Kanagawa, Japan), Makoto Yanagie (Kanagawa, Japan) and Masahiro Uematsu (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A polymer composition for lamination characterized in that the composition consists of (X1) 100 to 60% by weight of an ionomer characterized in that at least a part of a carboxyl group and/or a dicarboxylic anhydride group in a copolymer (P) containing a structural unit (A) derived from ethylene and/or an Alpha-olefin having 3 to 20 carbon atoms an...