ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,953, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Henkel AG & Co. KGaA (Duesseldorf, Germany).
"Hot melt adhesive for spiral wound membrane bonding" was invented by Adam D. Holliday (Sycamore, Ill.), Dwight Heinrich (Aurora, Ill.), Michael M. Izzo (South Windsor, Conn.) and Nicole Smith (South Windsor, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a high-penetration hot melt adhesive for separation apparatus, such as thin film composite reverse osmosis filtration membranes. Also disclosed is a method of using these hot melt adhesives to bond these membranes to one or more other components of a separation apparatus."
The patent was filed o...