US Patent Issued to Milliken & Co. on Feb. 24 for "Polyethylene polymer compositions and articles made from the same" (South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,609, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Milliken & Co. (Spartanburg, S.C.).

"Polyethylene polymer compositions and articles made from the same" was invented by Darin Dotson (Moore, S.C.), Walter Forrister (Inman, S.C.), Xiaoyou Xu (Spartanburg, S.C.) and Hua Sun (Greenville, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A polymer composition comprises a polyethylene polymer having a Melt Relaxation Index of 2 or greater and a salt of a branched alkyl phosphonic acid. A polyethylene film having improved barrier to water vapor and oxygen comprises a high-density polyethylene polymer having a density of about 930 kg/m3 to about 980 kg/m3 and a Me...