US Patent Issued to MONOSOL on July 21 for "Water soluble film and articles comprising same" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,764, issued on July 21, was assigned to MONOSOL LLC (Portage, Ind.).

"Water soluble film and articles comprising same" was invented by Jonathon Knight (Laporte, Ind.) and Ryan Slopek (Merrillville, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A water-soluble film for packaging oxidizing agents including a polyvinyl alcohol resin and a plasticizer, the polyvinyl alcohol resin comprising about 70% to about 100% of a polyvinyl alcohol copolymer including a maleate unit, wherein (a) when the polyvinyl alcohol copolymer comprises less than 100% of the polyvinyl alcohol resin, the balance of the resin comprises a polyvinyl alcohol homopolymer; (b) ...