US Patent Issued to Borealis on Feb. 3 for "Filtration media made from melt-blown fibers with improved filtration properties" (Austrian, Belgian, Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,477, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Borealis AG (Vienna).

"Filtration media made from melt-blown fibers with improved filtration properties" was invented by Jingbo Wang (Linz, Austria), Markus Gahleitner (Linz, Austria), Klaus Bernreitner (Linz, Austria), Joachim Fiebig (Linz, Austria), Henk Van Paridon (Averbode, Belgium), Wilhelmus Sars (Tilburg, Belgium) and Gustaf Tobieson (Stenungsund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to filtration media made from melt-blown fibers having improved barrier properties. The melt-blown fibers in the filtration media of the invention are made of a visbroken metall...