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Audrey A Sherman

Saint Paul, MN, United States of America

Audrey A Sherman

Graduated from:

Augsburg University (USA)

3M’s “100-Patent Woman” Audrey Sherman Explains How She Did It

USPTO Granted Patents = 170 (Patent Applications = 71)

EPO Patents = 44 (Patent Applications = 103)

Average Co-Inventor Count = 4.7

ph-index = 25

Forward Citations = 2,541(Granted Patents)

Forward Citations (Not Self Cited) = 1,996(Dec 10, 2025)

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Location History:

Saint Paul, MN (US) (1992 - 2020)
Woodbury, MN (US) (2015 - 2024)

Company Filing History:

152 out of 14,076

3m Innovative Properties Company

Solventum Intellectual Properties Company

Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company

3m Innovation Properties Company

Years Active: 1992-2025

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Areas of Expertise:

Medical Adhesives

Optical Devices

Siloxane Polymers

Sensor Arrays

Crowdfunding Innovation

Photocurable Adhesives

Heat-Activatable Adhesives

Microstructured Surfaces

Display Technologies

Polymerization Techniques

Fluid Management

Adhesive Articles

170 patents (USPTO):Sort by Forward CitationsExplore Patents

1. 12453659 - Fluid-managing medical adhesive articles with microstructured surfaces (2025-10-28),

2. 12419560 - Dry electrodes (2025-09-23),

3. 12416526 - Optical stack, optical device and optical construction (2025-09-16),

4. 12346547 - On-demand manufacturing for medical tapes (2025-07-01),

5. 12318269 - Medical articles with radio opaque patterns (2025-06-03),

6. 12201501 - Medical dressings with stiffening systems (2025-01-21),

7. 12179472 - Reinforced adhesive substrate (2024-12-31),

8. 12129406 - Siloxane-based gel adhesives and articles (2024-10-29),

9. 12121115 - Self-mating mechanical fastener with conductive contact element (2024-10-22),

10. 12086741 - Incentivized crowd funding system for internal innovation by an organization (2024-09-10),

11. 12066329 - Sensor array spectrometer (2024-08-20),

12. 11768145 - Porous fluid sensor (2023-09-26),

13. 11691384 - Siloxane tackifying resin layers as adhesion promotion agents (2023-07-04),

14. 11511522 - High performance photocurable optically clear adhesive (2022-11-29),

15. 11492491 - Solid siloxane polymers as delivery agents for siloxane tackifying resins (2022-11-08),

Audrey Sherman is currently a Division Scientist with Solventum.

She spent over three decades at 3M, turning chemistry into magic and adhesives into art. With a B.S. in Chemistry and a minor in Art from Augsburg College, Audrey has blended science and creativity into a career that’s as colorful as it is technical. She holds 169 U.S. patents, many of which have revolutionized how things stick, unstick, and stick again. Her work spans acrylates, silicones, crosslinked polymers, and microstructured PSAs, though she'll tell you she knows all three sides of the tape (a joke only a real materials scientist can make). From gram-scale synthesis to ton-scale manufacturing, she's seen it all, glued it all, and improved it all.

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