ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,985, issued on July 8, was assigned to NIPPON PAPER INDUSTRIES Co. LTD. (Tokyo) and KANEKA Corp. (Osaka, Japan).
"Coated paper" was invented by Hirosuke Tsunoda (Tokyo), Yoshio Yoshida (Tokyo), Koji Kutsuwa (Tokyo), Tetsuo Okura (Settu, Japan), Yasunori Okada (Settu, Japan) and Asuka Fukutome (Settu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present invention is to provide a coated paper that includes a coating layer containing poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyhexanoate) with few coating defects. As a solution, the present invention provides a coated paper including a coating layer containing poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-...