US Patent Issued to Solventum Intellectual Properties on April 29 for "Adhesive primers and articles including the same" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,572, issued on April 29, was assigned to Solventum Intellectual Properties Co. (Maplewood, Minn.).

"Adhesive primers and articles including the same" was invented by Kiu-Yuen Tse (Woodbury, Minn.) and David T. Amos (St. Paul, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are adhesive articles that include a silicone adhesive and a substrate, with a primer layer interposed between the silicone adhesive and the substrate. The primer layer includes a polymer having a polyorganosiloxane pendant group P represented by the formula (I) where each R1 is independently an alkyl, haloalkyl, arylalkyl, alkenyl, aryl, or aryl substituted with an a...