US Patent Issued to Arkema France on Oct. 7 for "Curable compositions and low tack, self-adherent adhesives prepared therefrom" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,171, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Arkema France (Puteaux, France).

"Curable compositions and low tack, self-adherent adhesives prepared therefrom" was invented by Brendan T. Mcgrail (Phoenixville, Pa.), Michael A. Bailey (Aston, Pa.) and Mahendra Christopher Orilall (Downingtown, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A low tack, self-adherent adhesive is obtained by curing a composition containing at least one acrylate-functionalized urethane oligomer, at least one poly(meth)acrylate-functionalized monomer and, optionally, at least one free radical initiator such as a photoinitiator or peroxide, but little or no hydrocarbon tackifyi...