ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,978, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SIKA TECHNOLOGY AG (Baar, Switzerland).

"Water-based dispersion floor adhesive with high dimensional stability" was invented by Bernd Overkamp (Horstmar, Germany), Tobias Benighaus (Munster, Germany) and Steffen Maier (Wettingen, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A single-component adhesive composition includes: an aqueous acrylic polymer dispersion comprising water and at least one water-dispersed acrylic polymer P; between 0.2 wt.-% and 2.0 wt.-%, preferably between 0.5 wt.-% and 1.5 wt.-%, based on the total composition, of at least one water-dispersed or water-dissolved cross-linke...