US Patent Issued to KANEKA on Feb. 3 for "Laminated article and molded article" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,438, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to KANEKA Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Laminated article and molded article" was invented by Asuka Fukutome (Settsu, Japan), Yasunori Okada (Settsu, Japan), Tetsuo Okura (Settsu, Japan) and Kensuke Murashima (Settsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laminated article includes a base layer and a coating layer disposed over at least one side of the base layer. The coating layer contains a poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) resin. In a crystalline melting curve obtained by differential scanning calorimetry of the coating layer, the coating layer has at least one peak top temperature (Tma) in the range of 100 to 1...