ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,439, issued on March 17, was assigned to TESA SE (Norderstedt, Germany).
"Multilayer adhesive tape" was invented by Alexander Prenzel (Hamburg, Germany), Ji Li (Hamburg, Germany) and Julia Befuss (Hamburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are powerful adhesive tapes, which rapidly coat rough and/or curved surfaces with different surface energies and thereby build up high adhesion. The adhesive joints formed in this way furthermore have good shear strength, even at elevated temperatures. Finally, enduring mechanical loading on the adhesive joints does not lead to the adhesive tape peeling from the surface. This is ach...