US Patent Issued to Dow Global Technologies on Oct. 14 for "Polymer-based film with balanced properties" (American, Singaporean, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,823, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Dow Global Technologies LLC (Midland, Mich.).

"Polymer-based film with balanced properties" was invented by Andrew T. Heitsch (Angleton, Texas), Yijian Lin (Pearland, Texas), Barbara Bonavoglia (Zurich), Kyle E. Hart (Manvel, Texas), Mehmet Demirors (Pearland, Texas), Rou Hua Chou (Singapore) and Manoj Thota (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A film includes 20.0 weight percent to 69.5 weight percent of a linear low density polyethylene (LLDPE) based polymer. The LLDPE having a high density fraction (HDF) from 3.0% to 8.0%, an I10/I2 ratio from 5.5 to 6.9, and a short chain branch...