ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,473, issued on June 3, was assigned to AMCOR FLEXIBLES NORTH AMERICA INC. (Neenah, Wis.).
"Recyclable bag" was invented by Marco Torriglia (Varazze, Italy), Alberto Vara Alonso (Madrid) and Nicola Catozzi (Sandrigo, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hermetically sealed single lip bag has a front panel (210), a back panel (220), a first side panel and second side panel formed from a recyclable high-barrier packaging film. The recyclable high-barrier packaging film has a machine-direction oriented, polyethylene-based exterior film (110) and a polyethylene-based interior film (120). The exterior film (110) has a transverse direction...