ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,394, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Lotte Chemical Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Thermoplastic resin composition and molded article manufactured therefrom" was invented by Seon Ae Lee (Uiwang-si, South Korea), Yoen Kyoung Kim (Uiwang-si, South Korea), Jee Kwon Park (Uiwang-si, South Korea) and Hyeon Mun Jeong (Uiwang-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermoplastic resin composition of the present invention is characterized by comprising: about 100 parts by weight of a polyolefin resin including one or more of a polypropylene resin and an ethylene-propylene block copolymer; about 10 parts by weight to about 60 parts by...