US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on July 14 for "Curable compositions, articles therefrom, and methods of making and using same" (Swedish, American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,958, issued on July 14, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Curable compositions, articles therefrom, and methods of making and using same" was invented by Lalitha V.N.R. Ganapatibhotla (Lake Elmo, Minn.), Michael A. Kropp (Cottage Grove, Minn.), Emelie M. Fritz (Vasteras, Sweden) and Adrian T. Jung (Kaarst, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A curable composition includes a polyol component including one or more polyols; a functional butadiene component; and filler particles; wherein the curable composition has, upon curing, a thermal conductivity of at least 3.0 W/(mK). The filler particles include ...