US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on Dec. 16 for "Water-based fire retardant thin film adhesive" (Minnesota, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,547, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Water-based fire retardant thin film adhesive" was invented by Michael D. Zenner (Hudson, Wis.), Ryan K. McKenney (Roseville, Minn.), Dillon S. Gentekos (St. Paul, Minn.) and Eumi Pyun (St. Paul, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Adhesives comprising: a) 35-85 weight percent of a pressure sensitive adhesive comprising: i) a polymer selected from rubbers and polyacrylate polymers and ii) optionally one or more tackifiers; and dispersed therein b) 15-50 weight percent fire retardant (FR) particles comprising one or more phosphorus-containing com...