ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,811, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Tesa SE (Norderstedt, Germany).

"Adhesive tape for jacketing elongated items such as more particularly cable harnesses and method for jacketing" was invented by Andreas Schmidlin (Guderhandviertel, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to adhesive tape, especially for lengthwise jacketing of elongate items such as cable harnesses in a motor vehicle, comprising a carrier having a top side and a bottom side, where the carrier, based on the cross direction, has a width BT, and at least one layer of adhesive applied on the bottom side of the carrier, the adhesive layer bearin...