ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,782, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Thermally curable compositions, thermally cured compositions, and articles prepared therefrom" was invented by Christian Heering (Dusseldorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Thermally curable compositions with excellent storage stability are provided that curing system comprising a compound of Formula (I). In Formula (I), L+n is a ulmetal or alkaline earth metal and n is equal to 1 or 2. Groups A and B are each independently an alkyl having 1 to 12 carbon atoms, a cycloalkyl having 3 to 12 carbon atoms, an aryl having 6 to 12 carbon atoms,...