ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,383, issued on June 16, was assigned to INTEPLAST GROUP Corp. (Livingston, N.J.).

"Embossed film" was invented by Shen-Hsiu Hung (Sugarland, Texas), Ter-Hai Lin (Sugarland, Texas), Ben Tseng (Somerset, N.J.), Jyh-Yao Raphael Li (Parsippany, N.J.) and Kelvin Yang (Madison, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention is also directed to a coextruded film comprising a core layer which comprises between 20 wt. % and 99 wt % znLLDPE or HDPE, wherein the core layer further comprises filler materials; and outer layers on each side of the core layer comprising between 50 and 99 wt % of one of LLDPE, LDPE, blends of LLDPE and LDPE, or m...