US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on Oct. 27 for "Structural adhesive having superior compression properties" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,383, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Structural adhesive having superior compression properties" was invented by Sohaib Elgimiabi (Duesseldorf, Germany), Stefan Spiekermann (Neuss, Germany) and Florian Szillat (Neuss, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a two-part curable composition precursor comprising (a) a first part (A) comprising at least one multifunctional epoxy resin having an epoxy functionality of at least three; and (b) a second part (B) comprising a prepolymer obtained from (i) a first amine-based epoxy curing agent and a second amine-...