ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,383, issued on March 17, was assigned to Borealis AG (Vienna).

"Heterophasic polypropylene composition" was invented by Jingbo Wang (Linz, Austria), Markus Gahleitner (Linz, Austria), Klaus Bernreitner (Linz, Austria), Wilfried Toeltsch (Linz, Austria) and Simon Schwarzenberger (Linz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a heterophasic polypropylene composition with good response to nucleating agents, increased crystallisation temperature, good mechanical properties The present invention further relates to articles made thereof, and the use of the heterophasic polypropylene composition for specific a...