ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,182, issued on May 20, was assigned to OJI HOLDINGS Corp. (Tokyo).
"Barrier laminate and packaging bag" was invented by Yasutomo Noishiki (Tokyo), Yuta Shamoto (Tokyo), Moeka Namioka (Tokyo) and Misaki Wakabayashi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A barrier laminate which not only achieves both water vapor barrier performance and gas barrier performance at high levels even with a small number of layers (e.g., even with a single barrier layer), but also can reduce the amount of coating and thereby reduce the environmental load. The barrier laminate includes a barrier layer on at least one surface of a paper substrate, and the barr...