ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,089, issued on July 15, was assigned to THE BOEING COMPANY (Arlington, Va.).

"Adhesion promoter compositions to eliminate substrate preparation and methods for the same" was invented by Phuong Bui (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), Ashley Marie Dustin (Santa Monica, Calif.), Andrew P. Nowak (Malibu, Calif.), Carissa Ann Pajel (Mercer Island, Wash.), Melinda Dae Miller (Snohomish, Wash.) and Stella Fors (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adhesion promoter composition is disclosed. The adhesion promoter composition also includes one or more reactive silanes which includes a mercaptopropyltrimethoxysilane, a glycidoxypropyltrimethoxys...