US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on July 15 for "Patterned conductive article" (Minnesota, Wisconsin, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,825, issued on July 15, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Patterned conductive article" was invented by Raymond P. Johnston (Lake Elmo, Minn.), Kevin W. Gotrik (Hudson, Wis.), John J. Sullivan (Hudson, Wis.), Kenneth A. P. Meyer (Eagan, Minn.), Joseph C. Carls (Austin, Texas), Haiyan Zhang (Lake Elmo, Minn.), Gregory L. Abraham (Austin, Texas) and Matthew S. Stay (Bloomington, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patterned conductive article includes a substrate having a first groove therein; a conductive seed layer disposed in the first groove; and a unitary conductive body disposed at least partiall...