ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,026, issued on June 2, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).
"Co-extruded rubber-based multilayer adhesive assembly" was invented by Pierre Bieber (Korschenbroich, Germany), Niklas Matzeit (Bergheim, Germany), Petra Stegmaier (Duesseldorf, Germany), Doreen Eckhardt (Dormagen, Germany), Robert D. Waid (Maplewood, Minn.) and Eike Klunker (Kaarst, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a co-extruded multilayer adhesive assembly comprising: a) a heat-activatable adhesive resin layer comprising a (co)polymer of one or more monomers selected from the group consisting of olefins; an...