ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,338, issued on May 13, was assigned to SIKA TECHNOLOGY AG (Baar, Switzerland).

"Thermoplastic polymer compositions with improved flexibility" was invented by Oliver Knebel (Lucerne, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermoplastic composition has at least one butene-1 (co)polymer, at least one heterophasic propylene copolymer, and at least one propylene-based elastomer. Further, the thermoplastic composition can be used to produce a shaped article, a shaped article can include a substrate layer including the thermoplastic composition, a method can produce a shaped article, and a method can cover a substrate using the shaped...