US Patent Issued to Plastipak Belgium BVBA on March 18 for "Barriers for plastic preforms and containers and preforms and containers made therewith" (Belgian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,861, issued on March 18, was assigned to Plastipak Belgium BVBA (Brecht, Belgium).

"Barriers for plastic preforms and containers and preforms and containers made therewith" was invented by Youri Michiels (Antwerp, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A barrier for injection molding, the barrier including a manganese (Mn) catalyst and an oxygen barrier. In embodiments, the oxygen barrier comprises MXD6. Such barriers may be included with a polymer to form a composition used in an injection process. In other embodiments, a barrier includes a transition metal catalyst, an organic compound, and a radical initiator. In embodiments, the...