US Patent Issued to Solventum Intellectual Properties on Feb. 17 for "Method of thermoforming film with structured surface and articles" (Minnesota, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,087, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Solventum Intellectual Properties Co. (Maplewood, Minn.).

"Method of thermoforming film with structured surface and articles" was invented by Raymond P. Johnston (Lake Elmo, Minn.), Jodi L. Connell (St. Paul, Minn.), Karl J. L. Geisler (St. Paul, Minn.), Jeffrey L. Solomon (Centerville, Minn.), Kristal L. Schutta (Forest Lake, Minn.), Conrad Lather (St. Paul, Minn.), Ta-Hua Yu (Woodbury, Minn.), Anthony F. Schultz (Forest Lake, Minn.), Duane D. Fansler (Dresser, Wis.) and Richard J. Pokorny (Maplewood, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presently described are methods of making an article com...