US Patent Issued to KURARAY on June 24 for "Water-based adhesive for paper straw, and paper straw in which same is used" (Japanese, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,371, issued on June 24, was assigned to KURARAY Co. LTD. (Kurashiki, Japan).

"Water-based adhesive for paper straw, and paper straw in which same is used" was invented by Yuta Taoka (Kurashiki, Japan), Yoriko Imaoka (Kurashiki, Japan), Tatsuya Tanida (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) and Masato Nakamae (Kurashiki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A water-based adhesive suitable for a paper straw may include: an ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer (A); and water. The ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer (A) may have an ethylene units content of 1 mol % or more and less than 20 mol %. A block character of the ethylene units may be from 0.90 to...