ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,209,173, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to LG Chem Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Pellet-type polypropylene resin composition and method for preparing the same" was invented by Kyung Seop Noh (Daejeon, South Korea), Heekwang Park (Daejeon, South Korea), Seong Min Chae (Daejeon, South Korea) and Jihwa Ye (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There are provided a pellet type polypropylene resin composition that exhibits excellent heat resistance and oxidation stability, and exhibits high flow without using a decomposition accelerator, and thus, can be used to prepare fine denier fiber, and a method for preparing the same."

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