US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on Nov. 11 for "Article and method of making the same" (Minnesota, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,162, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Article and method of making the same" was invented by Mario A. Perez (Wellington, Fla.), Binhong Lin (Woodbury, Minn.), Jeffrey P. Kalish (Woodbury, Minn.) and Erik M. Townsend (South St. Paul, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An article comprises a substrate having a first portion comprising at least one of a metal or a ceramic metal oxide. A composite foam is bonded to the metal or ceramic metal oxide. The composite foam comprises: at least one polymer preparable by ring-opening metathesis polymerization; at least one catalyst for the ring...