US Patent Issued to Mylar Specialty Films U.S. on Aug. 5 for "Copolyesters and processes for preparing copolyesters suitable for use in food contact applications" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,352, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Mylar Specialty Films U.S. LP (Chester, Va.).

"Copolyesters and processes for preparing copolyesters suitable for use in food contact applications" was invented by Stephen Sankey (Wilton, Great Britain), Stephen Jones (Wilton, Great Britain) and David Turner (Wilton, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for preparing a copolyester comprising repeating units derived from (i) at least one aliphatic glycol, (ii) at least one aromatic dicarboxylic acid, and (iii) at least one aliphatic dicarboxylic acid, wherein the aliphatic dicarboxylic acid constitutes a proportion of the acid fr...