US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on July 15 for "Adhesive assemblies permitting enhanced weight bearing performance with damage free removal" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,095, issued on July 15, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Adhesive assemblies permitting enhanced weight bearing performance with damage free removal" was invented by Dawud H. Tan (Lakeland, Minn.), Brett P. Krull (Saint Anthony, Minn.), Margaret M. Sheridan (Woodbury, Minn.) and Bradley S. Forney (Cottage Grove, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an adhesive assemblies such as an adhesive assembly for mounting an object to a surface, the assembly comprising: a first adhesive construction including a first major surface and a second major surface, the first adhesive con...