US Patent Issued to Cargill on March 17 for "Adhesive comprising polyvinyl acetate and a mixture of glucose and fructose" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,440, issued on March 17, was assigned to Cargill Inc. (Wayzata, Minn.).

"Adhesive comprising polyvinyl acetate and a mixture of glucose and fructose" was invented by Flave Eugene Markland Jr. (Atkins, Iowa) and Richard Thalhofer (Ratingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aqueous adhesive compositions comprising polyvinyl acetate can be extended by a) providing an adhesive polymer component wherein at least about 75% of adhesive polymer materials present in the adhesive polymer component is polyvinyl acetate; b) providing an aqueous saccharide composition comprising fructose and glucose in a fructose to glucose weight ratio of...