ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,791, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Borealis AG (Vienna).

"Propylene composition for foaming with improved mechanical properties" was invented by Daniela Mileva (Linz, Austria), Jingbo Wang (Linz, Austria), Klaus Bernreitner (Linz, Austria) and Markus Gahleitner (Linz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A polypropylene composition (C) comprising: i) from 55.0 to 95.0 wt.-% of a heterophasic propylene copolymer (HECO), ii) from 5.0 to 45.0 wt.-% of a copolymer (CP), preferably a random copolymer, of propylene and at least one comonomer selected from the group of C4-C10 alpha-olefins that has been synthesized in the presence of...