US Patent Issued to Andover Healthcare on Dec. 2 for "Laminated adhesive tape and composition therefor" (New Hampshire, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,644, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Andover Healthcare Inc. (Salisbury, Mass.).

"Laminated adhesive tape and composition therefor" was invented by Khaled El-Tahlawy (Portsmouth, N.H.) and Thomas S. Murphy (Hillsboro Beach, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laminated adhesive tape includes a substrate comprising two or more plies of thin, flexible material, the substrate having a first major surface and a second major surface opposite the first major surface. A polymeric laminating composition comprising a polymer and an alkyl ketene dimer binds the two or more plies and a pressure sensitive adhesive carried on the first major s...