ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,195, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to KURARAY Co. LTD. (Okayama, Japan).

"Multilayer film having excellent recoverability" was invented by Frank Balemans (Melsele, Belgium), Hiroyuki Shimo (Melsele, Belgium), Masahiro Kitamura (Melsele, Belgium) and Yuji Shimizu (Kurashiki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a multilayer film comprising a resin composition layer containing an ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer with an ethylene unit content of 20 mol % or more and 60 mol % or less and an ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer with an ethylene unit content being more than the ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer...