ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,373, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Avery Dennison Corp. (Mentor, Ohio).

"Heat-activatable linerless label constructions" was invented by Ronald Wiegers ('s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands), Hidde R. Van Der Horst (Leiderdorp, Netherlands), Antoine Briand (Haarlem, Netherlands), Marina Carrer (Leiden, Netherlands) and Sara Mehretab (Zogno, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Heat-activatable, linerless labelstock constructions with a detack layer are disclosed. Methods of preparing the same are disclosed."

The patent was filed on Oct. 11, 2022, under Application No. 18/687,866.

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