ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,715, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Societe des Produits Nestle S.A. (Vevey, Switzerland).

"Multi-layer flexible packaging material" was invented by Alexey Vishtal (Lausanne, Switzerland) and Hock Seng Gordon Soh (Punggol Drive, Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates generally to the field of multi-layer flexible packaging material. In particularly, the present invention relates to a multi-layer flexible packaging material comprising a paper layer, an aluminium layer, a nanoclay barrier coating layer, and a sealing layer applied to the surface of the nanoclay barrier coating layer representing the in...