ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,746, issued on May 27, was assigned to Koehler Innovation & Technology GmbH (Oberkirch, Germany).
"Coated paper" was invented by Aljoscha Foll (Appenweier, Germany), Claus Jurisch (Offenburg, Germany), Christian Kind (Baden-Baden, Germany), Marius Schulte (Oberkirch, Germany), Thomas Serrer (Appenweier, Germany) and Andrew Vogt (Offenburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a coated paper comprising a base paper and a barrier layer applied thereto, the barrier layer comprising at least one polymer, the polymer comprising an at least partly saponified polyvinyl alcohol and/or an at least partly sap...