ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,015, issued on July 15, was assigned to Henkel AG & Co. KGaA (Duesseldorf, Germany).

"Low-viscosity, rapid curing laminating adhesive composition" was invented by Ines Seehagen (Neuss, Germany), Michael Hoeltgen (Duesseldorf, Germany), Helga Garmann (Hilden, Germany) and Dennis Bankmann (Duesseldorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a 2-component polyurethane adhesive, in particular for laminating films, wherein the PU adhesive, based on the total weight of the laminating adhesive composition, (a) contains as resin component at least one NCO-terminated polyurethane pre-polymer having a content of at lea...