ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,732, issued on July 1, was assigned to Basell Poliolefine Italia S.r.l. (Milan).
"Scratch resistant polyolefin composition" was invented by Monica Galvan (Ferrara, Italy), Michele Grazzi (Ferrara, Italy), Claudio Cavalieri (Ferrara, Italy) and Mikhail Sergeevich Dureev (Butzbach, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An injection molded article made from or containing a propylene-based composition made from or containing: T1) from 90 wt % to 50 wt % of a propylene homopolymer; and T2) from 10 wt % to 50 wt % of a polymer composition made from or containing A) 5-35% by weight of a propylene homopolymer or a propylene ethylene copolyme...