US Patent Issued to BOREALIS on Dec. 23 for "Process for producing a polyethylene composition using molecular weight enlargement" (Swedish, Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,533, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to BOREALIS GMBH (Vienna).

"Process for producing a polyethylene composition using molecular weight enlargement" was invented by Carl-Gustaf Ek (Stenungsund, Sweden), Denis Yalalov (Stenungsund, Sweden), Franz Ruemer (Linz, Austria) and Mattias Bergqvist (Stenungsund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a process for producing a polyethylene composition by treating a cross-linkable ethylene copolymer containing monomer units with hydrolysable silane-groups and polar monomer units. The invention further provides a treated cross-linkable polyethylene composition 5 ob...