US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on July 15 for "Gradient permittivity film" (Minnesota, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,471, issued on July 15, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Gradient permittivity film" was invented by Ronald D. Jesme (Plymouth, Minn.), Jaewon Kim (Woodbury, Minn.), Stephen J. Etzkorn (Woodbury, Minn.), Dipankar Ghosh (Oakdale, Minn.), Mohsen Salehi (Woodbury, Minn.), Guanglei Du (Horseheads, N.Y.) and John A. Wheatley (Stillwater, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Gradient permittivity films are described. In particular, gradient permittivity films that include a first continuous matrix of a first component having a first relative permittivity and a second component disposed within the continuous ...