ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,877, issued on April 15, was assigned to DIC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Pressure-sensitive adhesive tape" was invented by Daisuke Watanabe (Saitama, Japan), Kota Suetsugu (Saitama, Japan), Akira Yamakami (Saitama, Japan) and Yumi Kagiyama (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adhesive tape with high high-load holding power, initial adhesive strength, and repeelability is provided. An adhesive layer of the adhesive tape contains filler particles and a triblock copolymer with a repeating unit represented by the following general formula (1):A, B, and C independently denote a repeating unit. A and C independently denote an alkyl methacr...