ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,600, issued on July 29, was assigned to Henkel AG & Co. KGaA (Duesseldorf, Germany).
"Sealant material" was invented by Deirdre Ledwith (Dublin), Laura Vaissaud (Civrieux, France), Michael Doherty (Kildare, Ireland), James Houlihan (Dublin) and Brendan Kneafsey (Dublin).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sealant material for sealing joints between male and female mating parts comprising: (a) an elongate flexible thread suitable for wrapping around at least one of the parts, and (b) a joint sealing composition comprising an anaerobically curable composition in solid form,the flexible thread being coated with the anaerobically curable com...