ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,724, issued on June 30, was assigned to tesa SE (Norderstedt, Germany).
"Thermal-activated, peelable adhesive tape" was invented by Jianxin Wang (Suzhou, China), Min Cao (Suzhou, China) and Shuang Wang (Hamburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adhesive tape that includes: a first adhesive layer defining an upper surface of the tape; a second adhesive layer defining a lower surface of the tape; and a reinforcement layer (or first and second reinforcement layers) and a thermally activated layer between the first adhesive layer and the second adhesive layer. The thermally activated layer is a thermoplastic polymer layer. The t...