US Patent Issued to Milliken & Co. on Jan. 20 for "Polyethylene polymer compositions and articles made from the same" (South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,933, issued on Jan. 20, 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 Ratio of 1.5 or greater and a salt of a branched alkyl phosphonic acid. A method for molding a thermoplastic polymer composition comprises the steps of (a) providing an apparatus comprising a die and a mold cavity; (b) providing the polymer composit...