US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on April 7 for "Electrically conductive adhesive layer" (Minnesota, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,399, issued on April 7, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Electrically conductive adhesive layer" was invented by Zhonghua Lu (Woodbury, Minn.), Jeffrey W. McCutcheon (Baldwin, Wis.), Sergei A. Manuilov (Bayport, Minn.), Joseph B. Eckel (Vadnais Heights, Minn.), Aaron K. Nienaber (Lake Elmo, Minn.), Michael S. Graff (Woodbury, Minn.), Ronald D. Jesme (Plymouth, Minn.), Steven H. Kong (Woodbury, Minn.) and Shane P. White (Stillwater, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrically conductive adhesive layer includes a plurality of particles dispersed between opposing first and second major surfaces o...