ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,364, issued on July 8, was assigned to TOYO SEIKAN Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Seamless can and resin-coated metal sheet for forming seamless can" was invented by Yuto Komichi (Yokohama, Japan) and Nobuhiko Nagai (Yokohama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seamless can having a bottom section and a body section, wherein a thermoplastic resin coating is formed on an outer surface side of the can over a polyester-based paint film. The polyester-based paint film includes a polyester-based paint composition which contains a colorant in an amount of 20 parts by mass or less relative to 100 parts by mass of a total resin solid content and a cu...