ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,024, issued on June 2, was assigned to ARKEMA FRANCE (Puteaux, France).

"Laminating adhesive composition" was invented by Gang Lu (Freeport, Texas), Nolan T. McDougal (Pearland, Texas) and Thomas R. Fielitz (Midland, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fire-retardant polyurethane-based laminating adhesive composition including: (a) at least one polyol component; (b) at least one polyisocyanate component; and (c) at least one alkoxysilane hydrolysate or at least one aryloxysilane hydrolysate; wherein the fire-retardant polyurethane-based laminating adhesive composition has a fire retardancy rating of HB in UL94HB testing; a process ...