US Patent Issued to The Glad Products on Nov. 11 for "Thermoplastic bags with complex stretch patterns" (Ohio, Illinois, Kentucky Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,156, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to The Glad Products Co. (Oakland, Calif.).

"Thermoplastic bags with complex stretch patterns" was invented by Shaun T. Broering (Fort Thomas, Ky.), Michael G. Borchardt (Naperville, Ill.), Ranyi Zhu (Naperville, Ill.), Jason R. Maxwell (Willowbrook, Ill.), Daniel Charles Peck (Mason, Ohio), Hugh Joseph O'Donnell (Cincinnati), Robert T. Dorsey (Willowbrook, Ill.), Lehai Minh Pham Vu (Monroe, Ohio) and Karen Denise McAffry (Maineville, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermoplastic film which exhibits elastic-like behavior along at least one axis when stretched or elongated and then released. ...