ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,586, issued on July 29, was assigned to MITSUI CHEMICALS INC. (Tokyo).

"Photocurable composition, three-dimensional modeling product, and dental product" was invented by Takaaki Hayashi (Funabashi, Japan), Toshikazu Sakamaki (Tokyo), Mai Kimura (Sodegaura, Japan), Hiroki Murai (Ichihara, Japan), Suguru Endo (Ichikawa, Japan) and Eiji Kobayashi (Ichihara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photocurable composition, wherein: in a case in which a rectangular sheet-like test piece P1 with a length of 40 mm, a width of 10 mm, and a thickness of 0.5 mm is produced by photomodeling under specific conditions, and a storage modulus is mea...