ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,569, issued on April 22, was assigned to SIG SERVICES AG (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Sheet-like composite for producing dimensionally stable food product containers with a barrier layer comprising a barrier substrate layer and an inwards-pointing barrier material layer" was invented by Daniel Heinze (Linnich, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a sheet-like composite comprising as layers of a layer sequence in a direction from an outer side of the sheet-like composite to an inner side of the sheet-like composite a) a carrier layer, and b) a barrier layer comprising i) a barrier substrate...