US Patent Issued to Borealis on Sept. 16 for "Filled polypropylene (PP) compositions with improved thermo-mechanical properties" (Austrian, Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,912, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Borealis AG (Vienna).

"Filled polypropylene (PP) compositions with improved thermo-mechanical properties" was invented by Jingbo Wang (Linz, Austria), Simon Schwarzenberger (Linz, Austria), Klaus Bernreitner (Linz, Austria), Markus Gahleitner (Linz, Austria) and Ville Virkkunen (Porvoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to a polypropylene (PP) composition comprising a) 50.0 to 95.0 wt.-%, based on the total weight of the polypropylene (PP) composition, of a polypropylene (PP) homopolymer being polymerized in the presence of a single-site catalyst and b) 5....