US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on June 2 for "Method of making a coated abrasive article and coated abrasive article" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,200, issued on June 2, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Method of making a coated abrasive article and coated abrasive article" was invented by Junting Li (Shanghai), Yu Yang (Eden Prairie, Minn.), Jing Zhang (Minneapolis), Michael J. Annen (Hudson, Wis.), Ernest L. Thurber (Somerset, Wis.), Eric W. Nelson (Stillwater, Minn.), Mark A. Lukowski (St. Paul, Minn.) and Chunjie Zhang (Shoreview, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of making a coated abrasive article includes disposing a precursor make layer on a major surface of the backing, optionally partially curing the precursor make layer to p...