US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on March 4 for "Tape including electrically conductive porous medium" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,008, issued on March 4, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Tape including electrically conductive porous medium" was invented by Hongyu Gan (Shanghai), Yan Wu (Shanghai), Jie Huang (Shanghai), Jing Fang (Shanghai) and Jeffrey W. McCutcheon (Baldwin, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tape includes an electrically conductive adhesive first layer having opposite outermost first and second major surfaces. The first layer includes an electrically conductive porous medium and an adhesive disposed in, and extending through a thickness of, the porous medium to define at the first major surface, first regions...