US Patent Issued to MIYOSHI OIL & FAT on Dec. 16 for "Additive for imparting ultraviolet absorbency and/or high refractive index to matrix, and resin member using same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,388, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to MIYOSHI OIL & FAT Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Additive for imparting ultraviolet absorbency and/or high refractive index to matrix, and resin member using same" was invented by Koji Kawai (Tokyo), Kotaro Kaneko (Tokyo), Nobuhiro Kaneko (Tokyo), Yuichi Shishino (Aichi, Japan) and Kuniyoshi Okamoto (Aichi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An additive represented by the following formula (IV):a resin composition comprising the additive; a transparent member comprising the resin; and a method for imparting ultraviolet absorbency and/or a high refractive index to a matrix."

The patent was filed on Feb. ...