US Patent Issued to Tekni-Plex on Oct. 28 for "Induction heat sealable closure liner configured for paper or plastic recycling stream, and induction heat seal application device" (American, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,103, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Tekni-Plex Inc. (Wayne, Pa.).

"Induction heat sealable closure liner configured for paper or plastic recycling stream, and induction heat seal application device" was invented by Munish Shah (Sylvania, Ohio), Dennis Carespodi (Winston-Salem, N.C.) and Tom Vlieger (Zaventem, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A structure and method of forming a metal foil-less liner, such that the entire liner can be recycled in a respective paper or plastic recycling stream. A separate application device is provided, which includes a metal layer, that is used to induction heat seal the liner to the containe...