US Patent Issued to Societe des Produits Nestle on Jan. 13 for "Recyclable paper-based laminate and a beverage carton made therefrom" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,973, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Societe des Produits Nestle S.A. (Vevey, Switzerland).

"Recyclable paper-based laminate and a beverage carton made therefrom" was invented by Johannes Zimmer (Lausanne, Switzerland) and Alexey Vishtal (Lausanne, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention concerns a paper-based barrier multilayer packaging material structure (1) being formed as a unitary sheet and comprising from its outer surface to its inner surface, the following layers: -a polymer dispersion coating (9) having a thickness of 1 to 10 micro metre, -a paperboard (8) having a grammage of between 120 g/m2 an...