US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on Aug. 26 for "Adhesives comprising cyclic imide addition-fragmentation and adhesion agents" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,301, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Adhesives comprising cyclic imide addition-fragmentation and adhesion agents" was invented by Amanda K. Leone (St. Paul, Minn.), Jonathan J. Anderson (New Brighton, Minn.), Guy D. Joly (Shoreview, Minn.), Ahmed S. Abuelyaman (Woodbury, Minn.), Michael A. Kropp (Cottage Grove, Minn.), Claire Hartmann-Thompson (Lake Elmo, Minn.) and Wayne S. Mahoney (St. Paul, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adhesive composition is described comprising at least one cyclic imide monomer comprising an unsaturated carbonyl. The adhesive composition is a polyme...