ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,765, issued on July 21, was assigned to Trinseo Europe GmbH (Pfaeffikon, Switzerland).
"Multilayer structure with a high impact resistance, high melt flow, low water haze cap layer" was invented by Noah E. Macy (Royersford, Pa.) and Jing-Han Wang (Blue Bell, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Polymeric resin compositions, and preferably acrylic or styrenic polymeric compositions, which are especially useful as a capstock material for coextrusion over, or lamination onto structural plastics. The polymeric capstock resin compositions contain an efficient small core-shell impact modifier that allows for a novel combination of properties...