ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,452, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Kuraray Co. Ltd. (Okayama, Japan).

"Heat and shock resistant transparent membrane" was invented by Diana Maya (Houston), Edgard Chow (Houston) and Makoto Okamoto (Zwijndrecht, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a multilayer structure including a first polyolefin layer comprising a first polyolefin resin, a gas barrier layer comprising ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer, and a second polyolefin layer comprising a second polyolefin resin. The present disclosure further provides a package made of the multilayer structure and also methods of use thereof."

The pa...