US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on Oct. 14 for "Article with thermal insulation properties" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,858, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Article with thermal insulation properties" was invented by Thomas Apeldorn (Monchengladbach, Germany), Michael Kempf (Neuss, Germany), Pierre Bieber (Korschenbroich, Germany), Rene Kuhlmann (Dusseldorf, Germany), Simon Plugge (Dusseldorf, Germany), Bjorn Hoffmann (Mettmann, Germany), David Rudek (Dusseldorf, Germany) and Roman Konietzny (Schwalmtal, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a cushioning article comprising a non-syntactic polymeric foam layer; and a plurality of spacer elements arranged within the p...