ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,724, issued on April 21, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Electrically conductive tape with monolayered conductive pressure sensitive adhesive" was invented by Junbeom Shin (Hwaseong-Si, South Korea), Jeongwan Choi (Suwon-Si, South Korea) and Jong-Pil Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrically conductive bonding tape includes a conductive first film between, and bonded to, conductive first and second adhesive layers. The first film and the first and second adhesive layers are conductive at least along a thickness direction of the bonding tape. Each of the first and se...