US Patent Issued to Colormasters on July 22 for "Recyclable heavy-gauge films and methods of making same" (Alabama Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,749, issued on July 22, was assigned to Colormasters LLC (Albertville, Ala.).

"Recyclable heavy-gauge films and methods of making same" was invented by Robert E. Chambliss (Trussville, Ala.) and James Harvey (Guntersville, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of making recyclable heavy-gauge films are provided. The methods of the present disclosure involve bonding the inner layers of a coextruded blown film together such that the film is sufficiently thick enough for it to be oriented in the MDO section using the typical 5:1 orientation ratio and result in a film with twice the gauge typically made by the MDO process (while ma...