US Patent Issued to Solventum Intellectual Properties on April 7 for "Articles having conformal layers and methods of making same" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,554, issued on April 7, was assigned to Solventum Intellectual Properties Co. (Maplewood, Minn.).

"Articles having conformal layers and methods of making same" was invented by Kurt J. Halverson (Lake Elmo, Minn.), Steven P. Swanson (Blaine, Minn.) and Raymond P. Johnston (Lake Elmo, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides articles having conformal layers and methods of making such articles. An article includes a first polymeric layer having a substantially planar major surface and an opposing major surface bonded to a second polymeric layer. One major surface of the second polymeric layer is conformal to ...