ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,353, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to SAMYANG Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Polyester resin including diester compound and anhydrosugar alcohol, and method for preparing same" was invented by Kyung Moo Shin (Daejeon, South Korea), Jun Seop Im (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Hoon Ryu (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The polyester resin is described, which has repeating units derived from a diester component of a dicarboxylic acid; and a diol component. The diester of the aliphatic dicarboxylic acid includes a succinic acid diester, the diol component comprises 50 to 100 mol % of an anhydrosugar alcohol, based on 100 ...