ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,713, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to SIG SERVICES AG (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Sheet-like composite, especially packaging laminate for dimensionally stable foodstuff containers, having a polymeric intermediate layer characterized by differential scanning calorimetry" was invented by Jannis Ochsmann (Frechen, Germany), Michael Wolters (Heinsberg, Germany) and Stefan Pelzer (Herzogenrath, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a sheet-like composite including as layers of a layer sequence, in a direction from an external side of the sheet-like composite to an internal side of the sheet-like compo...