ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,438, issued on May 12, was assigned to Oji Holdings Corp. (Tokyo).

"Vapor deposition paper and method for producing same" was invented by Yasutomo Noishiki (Tokyo), Yuta Shamoto (Tokyo), Misaki Wakabayashi (Tokyo) and Miyoko Tanaka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vapor deposition paper having barrier properties and excellent recyclability. The vapor deposition paper includes a clay coat layer; an undercoat layer; a vapor deposition layer; an overcoat layer; and a heat seal layer in this order on at least one surface of a paper substrate, in which the vapor deposition layer contains at least one of a metal and ceramic and has a...