3m Innovative Properties Company

3m Innovative Properties

Seiko Epson Corporation

Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company

Gemalto Sa

Solventum Intellectual Properties Company

James P DiZio

Audrey A Sherman

Jerald K Rasmussen

Encai Hao

Guy D Joly

Sergey Lamansky

Scott Melvyn Tapio

David J Kinning

George W Griesgraber

Robert A Asmus

David S Hays

Cary A Kipke

Douglas Eugene Weiss

Babu Nana Gaddam

Kevin Michael Lewandowski

Larry R Krepski

George G I Moore

Kyle J Lindstrom

Stephen A Johnson

Duane Douglas Fansler

Mark J Pellerite

Ann R Fornof

Wendi J Winkler

Mieczyslaw H Mazurek

Ramesh C Kumar

Chetan P Jariwala

Richard G Hansen

Kannan Seshadri

John Christopher Thomas

John Charles Clark

Kiran S Kanukurthy

Jason D Clapper

Charles L Bruzzone

John P Baetzold

Kui Chen-Ho

Junkang Jacob Liu

Steven D Solomonson

Lan Hong Liu

Bryan V Hunt

Jiaying Ma

James G Carlson

Ross E Behling

Joan M Noyola

Jonathan E Janoski

Alan R Kirk

Jason W Bjork

Mark F Ellis

Justin P Meyer

Pradnya V Nagarkar

Serkan Yurt

Christopher J Campbell

Claire Hartmann-Thompson

Jonathan A Anim-Addo

Bruce A Sventek

Stephen W Bany

Zheng Zhi Wu

Robert J Reuter

Elizabeth E Johnson

Maureen C Nelson

Döne Demirgöz

Andrew P Klein

Nicole Morozowich Beveridge

Janice R Manore

Patricia J A Brandt

Charles G Carter

Judith A Green

Roy Wong

John C Hulteen

Semra Colak Atan

Timothy A Peterson

Walter L Harmer

George J Clements

Sonja S Mackey

Manisha Sarkar

Haeen Sykora

Deena M Conrad-Vlasak

Marina M Kaplun

Onur Sinan Yordem

Michael Brett Runge

Patrick J Parks

John W Vanderzanden

Hildegard M Schneider

Zhicheng Tian

Ying Zhang

Amy S Determan

Gerald N Nkwantah

Michael K Gerlach

Grant W Fahnhorst

Xuequn Hu

Brian E Spiewak

Kheng Vang

Amy Preszler Prince

Sarah A Sykora

Athanasios Touris

Amy Preszier Prince

Gregg S Cannavo

Marvin Jeffrey Case

Val Vossen

Kathleen E Hoelscher

Abigail J Halmes

Antimicrobial compositions containing an antimicrobial agent, such as an octenidine salt, a solubilizer, such as a glycol, and a cidatrope, such as a C-Calcohol, an ether, an amide, an ester, and combinations thereof, where the compositions are substantially free of water and C-Calcohols and methods of making such antimicrobial compositions.

Antimicrobial composition

A multiple-part curable composition, a cured composition formed by combining and reacting the multiple-part curable composition, and a method of providing a cured composition are described. The multiple-part curable composition contains at least a part A and a part B. Part A contains an oxalamido-containing compound while part B contains a derivatized polyethylene imine. The cured composition is an adhesive that is suitable for use as a tissue adhesive.

Cured adhesive compositions and method of making

Presently described is a method for coupling an optical film to a substrate, laminated optical constructions comprising an optical film and an optical coupling layer disposed on a surface layer of the optical film, and coating compositions useful for optical an optical coupling layer. The coating compositions comprise at least 40 wt.-% inorganic nanoparticles having a refractive index of at least 1.85 and a polymeric silane surface treatment.

Composition comprising surface modified high index nanoparticles suitable for optical coupling layer

Waterborne suspensions include surface treated silica particles, a water dispersable binder resin, at least one surfactant, and an aqueous solvent. The surface treated silica particles have a mixture of hydrophobic and hydrophilic silane surface treatment agents, where the ratio of hydrophilic silane surface treatment agent to hydrophobic silane surface treatment agent is greater than 1. The waterborne suspensions can be coated and dried to form nanostructured tie layers, especially tie layers to silicone or (meth)acrylate layers.

Tie layers prepared from particle-containing waterborne suspensions

Inhibiting formation of optical artifacts in a multi-layer film polarizer of an optical imaging assembly that includes a polarizing beam splitter. The beam splitter may include a multilayer reflective polarizing film having at least two materials, one of which may exhibit birefringence after uniaxial orientation; an adhesive disposed on the multilayer reflective polarizing film; and at least a first prism disposed on the adhesive. The adhesive may include a plasticizer for inhibiting formation of optical artifacts in the polarizing film.

Adhesives inhibiting formation of artifacts in polymer based optical elements

A stable transdermal adhesive composition comprising: an adhesive comprising a washed polymerization reaction product of at least two ethylenically unsaturated monomers; and at least one pharmaceutically active compound which is susceptible to oxidative degradation; wherein the at least two ethylenically unsaturated monomers, if present in the adhesive as unreacted monomers, are present at a level of less than 200 ppm of total unreacted monomer, based upon the total weight of the adhesive, methods of making the composition, a transdermal drug delivery device using the composition, methods of making the device, and methods of delivery the pharmaceutically active compound are provided.

Transdermal adhesive compositions, devices, and methods

Silicone-polyether copolymers, adhesives and medical articles comprising same, and methods of making same. The silicone-polyether copolymer composition can include a backbone composition having a first (silicone) segment and a second (polyether) segment connected randomly via at least one of an oxamide linkage and a urea linkage. The method of making the silicone-polyether copolymer composition can include combining: a) a first (silicone) precursor; b) a second (polyether) precursor; and c) at least one of a diisocyanate and an oxalate compound.

Silicone-polyether copolymers, adhesives and medical articles comprising same, and methods of making same

A fingerprint imaging system is described comprising a film including an optically transparent self-wetting adhesive layer adhered to an imaging surface of an electronic optical image sensor. Also described is a method of use of an optical imaging system, and a film and multilayer film suitable for use with a fingerprint imaging system.

Fingerprint imaging systems comprising self-wetting adhesive, films and methods

Polymeric materials are disclosed herein that include a Polymer A, a Polymer B, and an oxalate ester or reaction product thereof. Polymer A contains electrophilic reactive groups, and Polymer B contains nucleophilic groups. In certain embodiments, the polymeric materials are free-flowing liquids at 100% solids that can be used, for example, as topical skin adhesives.

Curable polymeric materials and methods of using same

Polymeric materials are disclosed herein that include a reaction product of components comprising: a) a first amine component having at least two and at most three primary amino groups, secondary amino groups, or a mixture thereof, with the proviso that the first amine component is not a silicone diamine; b) a second amine component having (i) greater than three primary amino groups, or (ii) at least three primary amino groups and a plurality of secondary amino groups, wherein the second amine component is a polymeric material having a carbon backbone or a polymeric material having a carbon backbone with a plurality of catenated nitrogen atoms; and c) an oxalate ester.

Oxalate ester&#x2014;polyamine thermosetting compositions

Non-silicone urea-based adhesives are disclosed which are prepared by the polymerization of reactive oligomers with the general formula X&#x2014;B&#x2014;X, where X is an ethylenically unsaturated group and B is a unit free of silicone and containing urea groups. The reactive oligomers can be prepared from polyamines through chain extension reactions using diaryl carbonates followed by capping reactions. Adhesive articles, including optical adhesive articles may be prepared using the disclosed non-silicone urea-based adhesives.

Urea-based pressure sensitive adhesives

The disclosure describes a curable composition comprising a first oligomer having a plurality of polymerizable groups; a second component comprising alkylene oxide repeat units and terminal polymerizable groups, a solvent monomer component; and a photoinitiator. The curable composition may be used as an adhesive in optical applications.

Liquid optical adhesive compositions

A self-wetting adhesive composition is described comprising the reaction product of a low T(meth)acrylate solute copolymer component; a low Tsolvent monomer solvent monomer component comprising low Tmonomers, a multifunctional acrylate; and a polymerizable siloxane copolymer having at least one polydiorganosiloxane segment and at least on oxyalkylene segment.

Self-wetting adhesive composition

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