US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on April 8 for "Retroreflective article comprising locally-laminated reflective layers" (Minnesota, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,010, issued on April 8, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Retroreflective article comprising locally-laminated reflective layers" was invented by Kevin W. Gotrik (Hudson, Wis.), Kui Chen-Ho (Woodbury, Minn.), Scott J. Jones (Woodbury, Minn.), Michael A McCoy (St. Paul, Minn.), Christopher A. Merton (St. Louis Park, Minn.), Shri Niwas (Maple Grove, Minn.), Ramasubramani Kuduva Raman Thanumoorthy (Woodbury, Minn.) and Ying Xia (Woodbury, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A retroreflective article including a binder layer and a plurality of retroreflective elements. Each retroreflective element includes...