ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,140, issued on June 17, was assigned to NIPPON PAPER INDUSTRIES Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Modified polyolefin resin and use thereof" was invented by Tomohiro Okeda (Tokyo), Takato Takenaka (Tokyo), Isamu Ono (Tokyo), Minoru Yada (Tokyo) and Hiroko Iwakiri (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present invention is to provide a modified polyolefin resin composition having a high polyethylene content and exhibiting a good balance between a low-temperature stability and an adhesion to a polyethylene substrate and a metal. The present invention provides a modified polyolefin resin that is a graft-modified product in which a comp...