ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,008, issued on June 30, was assigned to Henkel AG & Co. KGaA (Duesseldorf, Germany).

"Electrically conductive one component (1K) epoxy formulation" was invented by Marc Estruga Ortiga (Hasselt, Belgium) and Anja Henckens (Zonhoven, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed to an electrically conductive composition comprising: a) a resin component comprising: 1) a first epoxy resin; and, 2) a second epoxy resin and/or a functionalised polybutadiene resin and/or a functionalised butadiene-acrylonitrile copolymer; b) a curative for epoxy resin; c) an electrically conductive filler; d) a one core shell rubb...