ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,010, issued on July 7, was assigned to Borealis AG (Vienna).

"Polypropylene-based article having an increased surface tension retention" was invented by Jingbo Wang (Linz, Austria), Markus Gahleitner (Linz, Austria), Klaus Bernreitner (Linz, Austria), Pauli Leskinen (Porvoo, Finland), Peter Niedersuess (Linz, Austria) and Stefan Ortner (Linz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Process for the production of a polypropylene based article having improved surface tension retention, and polypropylene based article having improved surface tension."

The patent was filed on Sept. 8, 2021, under Application No. 18/023,402.

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