ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,655, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to CONSTANTIA PIRK GMBH & Co. KG (Pirk, Germany).

"Recyclable, easily tearable packaging laminate having a good barrier effect and method for production thereof" was invented by Achim Grefenstein (Altrip, Germany), Markus Kick (Weiden, Germany) and Thami Lamtigui (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A recyclable, easily tearable packaging laminate having a good barrier effect, including a first laminate layer and a second laminate layer. The the first laminate layer is a co-extruded, in the machine direction stretched composite consisting of a substrate layer having a high HDPE content of at least...