ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,212, issued on March 24, was assigned to Energy Sciences Inc. (Wilmington, Mass.).

"Functional and recyclable materials with electron beam crosslinking for various packaging applications" was invented by Imtiaz Rangwalla (Wilmington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a novel, sustainable and recyclable flexible packaging film used for the purpose of food and non-food packaging. The invention also relates to improved method of manufacturing the recyclable flexible packaging film which results in enhanced recyclability of the film."

The patent was filed on Nov. 20, 2022, under Application No. 17/990,690.

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