ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,401, issued on June 17, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).
"MDO barrier film, package laminates containing the same, and methods of making the same" was invented by Zhan Cheng (Beijing) and Dong Ruan (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application is directed to machine directional oriented barrier film, package laminates containing the same, and methods of making the same. Said machine directional oriented (MDO) barrier film comprises a multi-layer structure having two spatially separated EVOH layers and an intermediate polyolefin layer between the two EVOH layers."
The patent was filed on Nov. 7...