US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on Oct. 14 for "Film including polymeric elements interconnecting particles" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,094, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Film including polymeric elements interconnecting particles" was invented by Bharat R. Acharya (Woodbury, Minn.), Derek J. Dehn (Maplewood, Minn.), Bradley L. Givot (St. Paul, Minn.), Jaewon Kim (Woodbury, Minn.) and Yong K. Wu (Woodbury, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A film includes a polymeric material and a plurality of particles dispersed therein. The polymeric material includes a plurality of elongate polymeric elements oriented along substantially a same first direction and interconnecting the particles. A ratio of a volume of the pl...