US Patent Issued to Eastman Chemical on Dec. 2 for "Stretchable multilayer films" (Tennessee, North Carolina, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,424, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Eastman Chemical Co. (Kingsport, Tenn.).

"Stretchable multilayer films" was invented by Sunil Vilas Kulkarni (Kingsport, Tenn.), Thomas Joseph Pecorini (Kingsport, Tenn.), Jamie Sue Dziczkowski (Kingsport, Tenn.), John Evan Boisseau (Bonita Springs, Fla.) and Babatunde Samuel Olaiya (Greensboro, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Stretchable, multilayer films are disclosed that include a thermoplastic polyurethane substrate and a thermoset coating, applied to the thermoplastic polyurethane substrate. The thermoset coating may comprise the reaction product of: an oligomeric polyester resin compri...