ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,876, issued on April 15, was assigned to Solventum Intellectual Properties Co. (Maplewood, Minn.).

"Hot melt processable (meth)acrylate-based medical adhesives" was invented by Jungkang Liu (St. Paul, Minn.), Athanasios Touris (Santa Ana, Calif.), Shijing Cheng (Woodbury, Minn.), Wengsheng Xia (Woodbury, Minn.) and Ying Zhang (Woodbury, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Adhesive articles include a substrate; and a hot melt processable pressure sensitive adhesive on the substrate. The hot melt processable pressure sensitive adhesive is a (meth)acrylate-based copolymer that is the reaction product of a reaction mixture that is free o...