US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on Feb. 17 for "Method of disposing an adhesive onto a substrate and article" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,974, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Method of disposing an adhesive onto a substrate and article" was invented by Amanda K. Leone (St. Paul, Minn.), William H. Moser (Edina, Minn.), Michael A. Kropp (Cottage Grove, Minn.), Erik M. Townsend (South St. Paul, Minn.), Zachary J. Thompson (Woodbury, Minn.) and Mary M. Caruso Dailey (Maplewood, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of disposing an adhesive composition onto a first surface of a first substrate comprises: a) disposing a photoactivatable adhesive precursor composition onto at least a portion of the first surface of ...