ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,757, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL Corp. (Tokyo).

"Laminate and stand-up pouch" was invented by Shinji Nakanishi (Tokyo), Kohei Oura (Tokyo) and Yoshitaka Matsumura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a laminate including a protection layer, a barrier layer, and a heat sealing layer, in which a product of a tensile elastic modulus A in a reference direction, a tensile elastic modulus B in a direction forming an angle of 45deg with respect to the reference direction, and a tensile elastic modulus C in a direction forming an angle of 90deg with respect to the reference direc...