US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Toyota Jidosha, Georgia Tech Research on April 14 for "Resins for adhesive bonding of fabrics" (Michigan, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,886, issued on April 14, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas), Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and Georgia Tech Research Corp. (Atlanta).

"Resins for adhesive bonding of fabrics" was invented by Yuyang Song (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Masato Tanaka (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Liang Yue (Atlanta) and Hang Qi (Marietta, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A resin for adhesive bonding to fabrics includes between about 80 wt. % and about 90 wt. % of a monomer, between about 10 wt. % and about 20 wt. % of a cross-linking agent with two or more acrylic acid groups separated by a flexible linker, be...