US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on Sept. 15 for "(meth)acrylic-epoxy UV initiated adhesive compositions and adhesive-containing articles" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,611, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"(meth)acrylic-epoxy UV initiated adhesive compositions and adhesive-containing articles" was invented by Adam O. Moughton (Minneapolis), Kathleen S. Shafer (Woodbury, Minn.), Andrew Satrijo (St. Paul, Minn.), Michael J. Maher (St. Paul, Minn.) and Deborah K. Schneiderman (St. Paul, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Curable and cured compositions as well as articles that contain the curable or cured compositions are provided. The curable composition comprises (a) a (meth)acrylic-based multiblock copolymer, (b) a random (meth)acylate copolymer...