ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,502, issued on May 27, was assigned to Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Biolink GmbH (Germany).

"Adhesive composite and method of forming an adhesive composite" was invented by Jan Scheffel (Bad Tolz, Germany) and Andreas Roth-Rosenkranz (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adhesive composite is provided that may include a substrate and an adhesive layer overlying the substrate. The adhesive layer may include at least a first region of a high Tg adhesive material and a second region of a low Tg adhesive material. The first region of the adhesive layer may be co-planar with the second region of the adhesive layer. The high Tg ad...