ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,316, issued on June 24, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Compositions comprising cyclic olefins and thermally conductive filler" was invented by Mario A. Perez (Burnsville, Minn.), Li Yao (Woodbury, Minn.), Eumi Pyun (St. Paul, Minn.), Binhong Lin (Woodbury, Minn.), Michael A. Kropp (Cottage Grove, Minn.), Kalc C. Vang (Oakdale, Minn.) and Matthew J. Kryger (Hudson, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composition is described comprising a cyclic olefin; a ring opening metathesis polymerization catalyst; and at least 40 wt. % of thermally conductive particles. The thermally conductive particles are se...