US Patent Issued to TOYOBO on July 1 for "Copolymerized polyester resin, molded product, and heat-shrinkable film" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,705, issued on July 1, was assigned to TOYOBO Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Copolymerized polyester resin, molded product, and heat-shrinkable film" was invented by Satoru Nakagawa (Tsuruga, Japan), Hideto Ohashi (Tsuruga, Japan), Nobuyuki Hironaka (Tsuruga, Japan), Hironao Sasaki (Osaka, Japan), Kosuke Uotani (Tsuruga, Japan) and Keiichiro Togawa (Otsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a copolymerized polyester resin which contains terephthalic acid as a main component of a dicarboxylic acid component; and contains ethylene glycol as a main component of a diol component, wherein a content of neopentyl glycol is...