ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,697, issued on July 8, was assigned to TEIJIN Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Resin composition for infrared ray-blocking transparent member, and molded article" was invented by Yosuke Onishi (Osaka, Japan) and Akika Ito (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a resin composition which has an infrared ray-blocking ability with excellent moist heat resistance while maintaining high transparency. The resin composition of the present invention contains, relative to (A) 100 parts by weight of a polycarbonate resin (component A), (B) 0.0001 to 0.2 part by weight of composite tungsten oxide fine particles (componen...