ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,049, issued on June 30, was assigned to CAREFUSION 303 INC. (San Diego).

"Methods and formulations for bonding dissimilar materials" was invented by Zehra Sevinc (Franklin Lakes, N.J.), Tea Datashvili (Franklin Lakes, N.J.), Fanqing Meng (Franklin Lakes, N.J.), Shang-Ren Wu (Franklin Lakes, N.J.) and Chinnu Brahatheeswaran (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to a formulations of cements and methods for bonding dissimilar materials. The formulations and methods can bond a Non-polyvinyl chloride (PVC) containing first polyolefin that is amorphous or has low crystallinity to a second m...