ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,545, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Plantic Technologies Ltd. (Altona, Australia).
"Resin composition" was invented by Masahiko Ota (Kurashiki, Japan), Akihiro Kotaka (Kurashiki, Japan) and Tsuyoshi Katakura (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The resin composition of the present invention comprises 40 to 98 parts by mass of a modified starch (A), 2 to 60 parts by mass of a polyvinyl alcohol (B) having a degree of saponification of 75.0 mol % or more, and optionally a clay (C), wherein the total content of the (A), (B) and (C) is 100 parts by mass, and the peak temperature of tan Delta in measurement of dynamic viscoelasticit...