US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on Sept. 8 for "Thermal debonding of primer-initiated curable structural adhesive films" (Minnesota, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,307, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Thermal debonding of primer-initiated curable structural adhesive films" was invented by Alexander J. Kugel (Woodbury, Minn.), Dean A. Miner (Prescott, Wis.), Matthew T. Holbrook (Little Canada, Minn.), Nicholas W. Lang (Minnetonka, Minn.), Kristen L. Bellmer (Cottage Grove, Minn.) and Scott M. Spear (St. Paul, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Debonding methods comprise: providing a bound article comprising, in order: a first adherend, a first primer layer, an adhesive layer, optionally a second primer layer, and a second adherend; heating th...