ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,372, issued on March 17, was assigned to Borealis AG (Vienna).

"Aerated polypropylene compositions exhibiting specific emission" was invented by Andreas Fuchs (Linz, Austria), Luca Boragno (Linz, Austria), Girish Suresh Galgali (Linz, Austria), Markus Gahleitner (Linz, Austria), Jurgen Huber (Linz, Austria) and Stefanie Engleder (Linz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for preparing a polypropylene composition including oligomers having a semi-volatile organic condensable (FOG, VDA 278 October 2011), content of 50 ug/g to about 400 yg/g of the total polypropylene composition, and volatile organic compounds (VOC, VDA 2...