US Patent Issued to Printpack Illinois on May 12 for "Recyclable packaging materials" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,823, issued on May 12, was assigned to Printpack Illinois Inc. (Elgin, Ill.).

"Recyclable packaging materials" was invented by Wil Ryan Goetsch (Maple Grove, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Layers of a recyclable packaging material can include a first layer of, or including, oriented polyethylene; a second layer of, or including, oriented polyethylene; a tie layer disposed between and joining the first layer and the second layer to one another; an ink layer printed onto at least a portion of at least one of an inner surface of the first layer or an outer surface of the first layer; a metallic barrier layer on at least a portion o...