ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,927, issued on July 1, was assigned to SAFRAN (Paris).

"Method for attaching a part to a carrier by transfer of an adhesive film" was invented by Pierre Francois Robin Geraud-Grosheny (Moissy-Cramayel, France), Romain Picon (Moissy-Cramayel, France) and Justine Delozanne (Moissy-Cramayel, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for transferring an adhesive onto a part intended to be glued on a carrier, the adhesive being in the form of a double-sided film including a separator on each face, the part including an internal concave portion that does not enable uniform application of the adhesive film once the separators have been ...