ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,258, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to tesa SE (Norderstedt, Germany).

"Light-curing reactive adhesive film" was invented by Uwe Schumann (Pinneberg, Germany), Frank Hannemann (Hamburg, Germany), Sebastian Dietze (Hamburg, Germany), Tanita Czeski (Norderstedt, Germany) and Andre Rellmann-Sprink (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a light-curing, reactive, pressure-sensitive adhesive film of adhesive. With the film of adhesive of the invention, structural bond strengths can be achieved. The film of adhesive comprises (a) at least one reactive monomer or reactive resin, (b) an initiator, (c)...