US Patent Issued to Dow Global Technologies on May 20 for "Multi-layered polyethylene films oriented in the machine direction and articles comprising the same" (Swiss Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,179, issued on May 20, was assigned to Dow Global Technologies LLC (Midland, Mich.).

"Multi-layered polyethylene films oriented in the machine direction and articles comprising the same" was invented by Luis Gerardo Zalamea Bustillo (Horgen, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides for a machine direction oriented polyethylene (MDO-PE) film, a laminate comprising the MDO-PE film and a method of forming the MDO-PE film. The MDO-PE film includes a core layer comprising a first ethylene-based polymer a skin layer comprising a second ethylene-based polymer and a sub-skin layer in-between and in contact w...