ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,334, issued on March 17, was assigned to ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc. (Baytown, Texas).
"Broad orthogonal distribution polyethylenes for films" was invented by Matthew W. Holtcamp (Huffman, Texas), Dongming Li (Houston), Kevin A. Stevens (Houston) and Laughlin G. McCullough (League City, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A polyethylene suitable for use in blown film can comprise ethylene derived units and C3 to C12 Alpha-olefin derived units at 0.5 wt % to 10 wt % of the polyethylene and have a reversed-co-monomer index (RCI,m) of 35 to 100, a comonomer distribution ratio (CDR-2,m) of 1.20 to 1.80, and a weight average molecu...