ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,589, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to KANEKA Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Resin film, and bag, glove, and banding material formed from the resin film" was invented by Wei Miao (Settsu, Japan) and Takeshi Sugiyama (Settsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a resin film containing a reaction product of 100 parts by weight of a poly(3-hydroxyalkanoate) resin component and 0.01 to 0.5 parts by weight of an organic peroxide. The poly(3-hydroxyalkanoate) resin component includes: a copolymer (A) which is a copolymer of 3-hydroxybutyrate units and 3-hydroxyhexanoate units and in which a content of the 3-hydroxyhexanoate units is ...