US Patent Issued to Societe des Produits Nestle on May 13 for "Paper-based flexible packaging material with high barrier properties and a process to produce it" (Swiss, Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,601, issued on May 13, was assigned to Societe des Produits Nestle S.A. (Vevey, Switzerland).

"Paper-based flexible packaging material with high barrier properties and a process to produce it" was invented by Alexey Vishtal (Lausanne, Switzerland), Hock Seng Gordon Soh (Punggol Drive, Singapore) and Yves Roger Wyser (Forel, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates generally to the field of polymer dispersion coated, paper-based flexible packaging materials. In particular, the present invention relates to improving the barrier properties of polymer dispersion coated 5 paper-based flexible packaging mate...