ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,704, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to TESA SE (Norderstedt, Germany).

"Method for jacketing elongate articles, in particular lines" was invented by Kerstin Klingeberg (Hamburg, Germany), Heike Simonis (Hamburg, Germany), Lars Guldbrandsen (Barsbuettel, Germany) and Uwe Schuemann (Pinneberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for jacketing elongate articles, such as lines or cable harnesses in particular, by means of an adhesive tape comprising a tape-shaped substrate, which substrate has, on at least one side, a thermally curable, meltable, preferably pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, the adhe...