US Patent Issued to Cryovac on Sept. 30 for "Multilayer heat-shrinkable barrier film and packages made therefrom" (American, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,756, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Cryovac LLC (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Multilayer heat-shrinkable barrier film and packages made therefrom" was invented by Jessica Ashley Olsen (Charlotte, N.C.), Silvia Bottini (Lissone, Italy), Ashley Cornell Wynne (Woodruff, S.C.), Robert Babrowicz (Tega Cay, S.C.), Dwight Wayne Schwark (Rock Hill, S.C.), Sri Charan Yarlagadda (Charlotte, N.C.) and Miles Andrew Johnston (Tega Cay, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayer shrink film having at least two barrier layers. The barrier layers including ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer with an ethylene content of between 27-50 mol %. The multil...