ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,413, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Dai Nippon Printing Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Gas barrier laminate, and gas barrier packaging material and pillow packaging bag formed of the laminate" was invented by Shinichiro Kono (Tokyo), Yuya Takasugi (Tokyo), Yohei Yamato (Tokyo), Soichiro Yabuki (Tokyo) and Kiyoshi Toda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The purpose of the present invention is to provide a laminate which exhibits excellent workability during production, and is excellent in easy openability, gas barrier properties and flex resistance; and a packaging material and a pillow packaging bag each formed of the laminate. The lamina...