ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,325, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to UPM RAFLATAC OY (Tampere, Finland).

"Adhesive label" was invented by Bartosz Janicki (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The specification relates to an adhesive label comprising a water-borne multilayer pressure sensitive adhesive with enhanced performance. The adhesive label comprises a face layer and a multilayer adhesive adjoined to the face layer. The multilayer adhesive comprises at least two layers of pressure sensitive adhesive. At least one of the at least two layers comprises a pressure sensitive adhesive composition including at least one acrylic polymer which has a reactive gro...