US Patent Issued to Borealis on June 17 for "Polyethylene based laminated film structure with barrier properties" (Belgian, Austrian, Portuguese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,402, issued on June 17, was assigned to Borealis AG (Vienna).

"Polyethylene based laminated film structure with barrier properties" was invented by Peter Niedersuss (Ried/Riedmark, Austria), Nina Ackermans (Tessenderlo, Belgium), Paulo Cavacas (Coutada, Portugal), Willem De Wever (Hasselt, Belgium) and Johan Defoer (Mechelen, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Laminated film structure comprising at least one first film having a thin ceramic or metal coating, being laminated to a second film and whereby the laminated film structure is based on polyethylene only, i.e. polymers other than polyethylene are substantially absent and wh...