US Patent Issued to Cryovac on March 18 for "Elastomer containing multilayer film and method of manufacture" (North Carolina, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,321, issued on March 18, was assigned to Cryovac LLC (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Elastomer containing multilayer film and method of manufacture" was invented by Angelica Bergen Smith (Charlotte, N.C.), Paul Satterwhite (Simpsonville, S.C.), John Myers (Simpsonville, S.C.) and Sarah Lynn Geer (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayer film including at least one abuse layer. The abuse layer being a blend of one or more polyamides and an anhydride grafted or maleic anhydride grafted elastomer. Anhydride or maleic anhydride grafted elastomers include ethylene propylene diene monomer, ethylene propylene copolymer, styrene-ethy...