US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on Nov. 11 for "Curable compositions and methods of using the same" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,908, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Curable compositions and methods of using the same" was invented by Amanda K. Leone (St. Paul, Minn.), Ahmed S. Abuelyaman (Woodbury, Minn.), Yizhong Wang (Woodbury, Minn.), Wayne S. Mahoney (St. Paul, Minn.) and William H. Moser (Edina, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A curable composition comprises at least one monomer comprising at least one (meth)acryl group and a photoinitiator system. The photoinitiator system comprises at least one Type II photoinitiator and at least one cyclic Beta-diketone represented by the formula (I) or a tautome...