US Patent Issued to MONOSOL on Oct. 7 for "Degradable materials and packaging made from same" (North Carolina, Indiana, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,891, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to MONOSOL LLC (Merrillville, Ind.).

"Degradable materials and packaging made from same" was invented by David M. Lee (Clemmons, N.C.), Jennifer L. Childers (Lowell, Ind.), Lee K. Yeung (Garland, Texas), Ken Jenke (Merrillville, Ind.), Jonathon Knight (Laporte, Ind.), Nicholas Zeese (Michigan City, Ind.), P. Scott Bening (St. John, Ind.), Yashodhan S. Parulekar (Crown Point, Ind.) and Sumeet Kumar (Crown Point, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A water-soluble film, comprising a first water-soluble film, wherein the first water soluble film disintegrates in water within less than about 24 hours an...