ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,731, issued on July 8, was assigned to Borealis AG (Vienna).

"Polypropylene composition for producing a layer of a photovoltaic module" was invented by Tanja Piel (Linz, Austria), Bernt-Ake Sultan (Stenungsund, Sweden), Martina Sandholzer (Linz, Austria) and Klaus Bernreitner (Linz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed to a layer of an electrical device a photovoltaic module comprising at least one photovoltaic element and at least one layer comprising a polypropylene composition and to the use of a polypropylene composition for producing at least one layer of an element of a photovoltaic module." ...