ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,207, issued on June 10, was assigned to UPM RAFLATAC OY (Tampere, Finland).
"Linerless label" was invented by Juha Kivimaki (Helsinki).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention relates to a method for manufacturing a direct thermal linerless label web (100), the direct thermal linerless label web (100) comprising a face (110) having a multilayer structure comprising at least three layers, the face comprising a base layer (113), a direct thermal printable coating (115), and an intermediate layer (114) disposed between the base layer and the direct thermal printable coating, wherein the intermediate layer has a grammage in a range b...