ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,345, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to tesa SE (Nordersted, Germany).

"Polyvinyl aromate-polydiene-block copolymer-based adhesive compounds having improved thermal shear strength" was invented by Judith Gruenauer (Hamburg, Germany), Thilo Dollase (Hamburg, Germany), Bernd Luehmann (Norderstedt, Germany) and Jessika Gargiulo (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to polyvinal aromate-polydiene-block copolymer-based adhesive compounds that contain at least one type of a cationically curable reactive resin and that result, when cured, in improved thermal shear strength. The invention further relates to ...