US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on July 8 for "Mesh abrasive and method of making the same" (Minnesota, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,791, issued on July 8, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Mesh abrasive and method of making the same" was invented by Yuyang Liu (St. Paul, Minn.), Junting Li (Woodbury, Minn.) and Jaime A. Martinez (Kissimmee, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of making a mesh abrasive product comprises sequentially: 1) providing a production tool having a mold surface defining a plurality of shaped cavities and filling at least some of the shaped cavities with an abrasive composite precursor slurry, wherein the abrasive composite precursor slurry comprises abrasive particles dispersed within a curable binder...