ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,541, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to ZEON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Vinyl chloride resin composition, vinyl chloride resin molded product, and laminate" was invented by Takafumi Karasaki (Tokyo) and Takanori Fujiwara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a vinyl chloride resin composition with which color tone variation caused by molding temperature difference is inhibited. The vinyl chloride resin composition contains a vinyl chloride resin, a plasticizer, a uracil compound, and either or both of acetylacetone and a metal salt of acetylacetone. The vinyl chloride resin composition is preferably used in powder molding."

The p...