ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,611, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Henkel AG & Co. KGaA (Duesseldorf, Germany).

"Anaerobically curable compositions containing alpha-methylene-lactones" was invented by Adrian Brandt (Essen, Germany), Horst Beck (Neuss, Germany), Andreas Taden (Dusseldorf, Germany), Ralph Nemitz (Juechen, Germany), Alexander Kux (Monheim, Germany), Nigel Sweeney (Dublin), David Birkett (Kildare, Ireland), Brendan Kneafsey (Dublin), James A. Houlihan (Dublin) and Michael Doherty (Kildare, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to anaerobically curable compositions made from renewable materials. In particular, an alph...