ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,170, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to LINTEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Gas barrier laminate" was invented by Satoshi Naganawa (Tokyo) and Takumi Furuya (McKinney, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a gas barrier laminate capable of providing a singulated product in which occurrence of breakage of a gas barrier layer is suppressed when the gas barrier laminate is laminated on an adherend and singulated together with the adherend, the gas barrier laminate including a base material, the gas barrier layer, and a hardenable pressure sensitive adhesion agent layer in this order, wherein the hardenable pressure sensitive adhesio...