US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL on April 8 for "Molded article and method for producing molded article" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,946, issued on April 8, was assigned to MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL Corp. (Tokyo).

"Molded article and method for producing molded article" was invented by Yuya Kanamori (Tokyo) and Norihito Sakai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "As a molded article that has gas barrier properties even if a gas barrier layer is not provided and that also has molding stability and biodegradability, there is proposed a molded article containing an aliphatic polyester-based resin (A) and a polyvinyl alcohol-based resin (B) as main component resins, wherein the molded article has a resin phase-separated structure having a continuous phase including the alip...