US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on July 14 for "Single slit patterned, tension-activated, expanding articles" (Minnesota, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,621, issued on July 14, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Single slit patterned, tension-activated, expanding articles" was invented by Thomas R. Corrigan (St. Paul, Minn.), Patrick R. Fleming (Lake Elmo, Minn.), Anne C.F. Gold (South St. Paul, Minn.), Silvia G. Guttmann (St. Paul, Minn.), Nicholas K. Lee (Minneapolis), Dylan T. Cosgrove (Oakdale, Minn.), Delony L. Langer-Anderson (Hugo, Minn.), Lisa M. Miller (Spring Valley, Wis.) and Manoj Nirmal (St. Paul, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates generally to tension-activated, expanding articles that include single slit pa...