ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,050, issued on July 7, was assigned to Borealis AG (Vienna).

"Automotive composition" was invented by Jingbo Wang (Linz, Austria), Markus Gahleitner (Linz, Austria), Klaus Bernreitner (Linz, Austria), Pauli Leskinen (Porvoo, Finland) and Georg Grestenberger (Linz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composition comprising (A) 40 to 80 wt.-% of a first heterophasic composition (HECO1); (B) 7 to 30 wt.-% of a second heterophasic composition (HECO2); (C) 0 to 12 wt.-% of an HDPE; (D) 2 to 12 wt.-% of a plastomer; and (E) 7 to 25 wt.-%, of talc; wherein HECO1 has a Tm of 150 to 159deg C., an MFR2 of 20.0 to 120 g/10 min, a CRYSTEX cr...