3m Innovative Properties Company

Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company

Solventum Intellectual Properties Company

Robert R Kieschke

Andrew John Ouderkirk

Audrey A Sherman

Kenneth L Smith

Olester Benson, Jr

Gary Timothy Boyd

Raymond Patrick Johnston

Mario Alberto Perez

Erin A McDowell

Thomas J Blong

Tao Liu

Nicholas T Gabriel

Michael J Sykora

Gary E Gaides

Kandyce M Bohannon

Frank J Sherman

Matthew H Frey

Timothy J Nevitt

Billy Lee Weaver

Paul Marian Harvey

John D Geissinger

Nelson B O'Bryan

Bill H Dodge

Joel S Peiffer

Max Powers

Kelly S Johnson

Michael F Weber

Thomas P Klun

Michael C Palazzotto

Bernard O Geaghan

Wayne Scott Mahoney

Matthew S Stay

Kevin R Schaffer

Mark A Roehrig

Ta-Hua Yu

Scott Melvyn Tapio

Lan Hong Liu

Daniel J Schmidt

Charles David Hoyle

Shawn C Dodds

Pradnya V Nagarkar

Christopher J Campbell

Arokiaraj Jesudoss

James R Miller

Margot A Branigan

Michael W Dolezal

Jonathan G Storer

Eugene V Johnson

Martin H Benson

Crowd funding for innovation includes distributing a proposal with a description of a project idea, an amount of funds requested, and a time frame for raising the funds. Ownership of the project is transferred to an entity, which receives contributions from contributors and for each of the received contributions converts the contribution to a corresponding amount of virtual coin and adds the contribution to the funds. If the funding goal is complete within the time frame, the entity converts the coins to actual money and releases the money to the requestor. After completion of the project, the entity determines if the project is successful and can commercialize successful projects. For certain successful projects, the entity can also distribute funds to the contributors.

Incentivized crowd funding system for internal innovation by an organization

Optically clear curable adhesive films that are heat conformable prior to setting include a reactive composition. The curable films are flexible and free-standing, and have a complex viscosity of greater than 100,000 poise (10,000 Pascal seconds) at 25&#xb0; C. and less than 100 poise (10 Pascal seconds) at 85&#xb0; C., prior to setting. The set film has an adhesive shear strength of greater than 100 Newtons per square centimeter (N/cm) to a glass substrate when measured according to the Shear Adhesion Test Method. The reactive composition includes an ethylenically unsaturated polyester-containing oligomeric composition that is the reaction product of a saturated, amorphous co-polyester polyol and a compound with a terminal polyol-reactive group and a terminal ethylenically unsaturated group, a (meth)acrylate functional material, and at least one initiator.

Heat conformable curable adhesive films

A light control film includes a plurality of spaced apart substantially parallel first light absorbing regions arranged along a first direction, each first light absorbing region having a width and a height, the plurality of first light absorbing regions including nonoverlapping first and second sub-pluralities of the plurality of first light absorbing regions, the first sub-plurality of the plurality of first light absorbing regions having a first viewing angle, the second sub-plurality of the plurality of first light absorbing regions having a different second viewing angle.

Light control film with varied viewing angle

Crowd funding for innovation includes distributing a proposal with a description of a project idea, an amount of funds requested, and a time frame for raising the funds. Ownership of the project is transferred to an entity, which receives contributions from contributors and for each of the received contributions converts the contribution to a corresponding amount of virtual coin and adds the contribution to the funds. If the funding goal is complete within the time frame, the entity converts the coins to actual money and releases the money to the requestor. After completion of the project, the entity determines if the project is successful and can commercialize successful projects. For certain successful projects, the entity can also distribute the back funds to the contributors.

The present invention is a method of coating uniformly shaped and sized articles. The method includes providing a reactor having an arrayed inner surface, positioning the articles within the reactor, and coating the articles.

Uniform chemical vapor deposition coating on a 3-dimensional array of uniformly shaped articles

A touch sensor is provided that includes a transparent, insulating substrate and at least one U-shaped electrically conductive micromesh that includes traces disposed on the substrate. The traces include an elemental metal or an alloy of elemental metal. The touch sensor may be configured to determine a location and a magnitude of a force of a touch.

Touch sensor having au-shaped electronically conducive micromesh

The present invention is a two-part adhesive layer including a first, optically clear adhesive composition and a second, light-blocking adhesive composition substantially surrounding the first, optically clear adhesive composition.

Adhesives to replace ink step bezels in electronic devices

A method of coating film in a roll. A film is wound into a roll with gaps between the layers of the film in the roll. A fluid is forced through the roll such that the fluid deposits a coating on at least one side of the film.

Roll processing of film

A method of coating a plurality of sheets. A fluid is forced through gaps in the plurality of sheets. The fluid has a substantially plug flow profile and the fluid deposits a coating on at least one surface of the plurality of sheets in a self-limiting deposition process.

Sheet coating method

A touch screen display sensor is provided that includes a transparent touch-sensing element disposed upon the surface of a transparent substrate and a force-sensing element disposed within the transparent touch-sensing element. The force-sensing element includes two sets of bands of micromesh and can include a pressure-responsive material between the bands of micromesh. The bands of micromesh include traces of a metallic conductor. The sets of bands of micromesh are spaced apart and occupy substantially parallel planes.

Positional touch sensor with force measurement

Touch sensor layer constructions and methods of making such constructions are described. More particularly, touch sensor constructions that utilize patterned conductive layers that may be applied by a sacrificial release liner, eliminating one or more glass and/or film substrate from touch sensor stacks, and methods of making such constructions are described.

Transferable transparent conductive patterns and display stack materials

A laminated display unit having a light guide, an LCD panel laminated to a major surface of the light guide and a high modulus layer laminated to the light guide opposite the LCD panel. A first material having refractive index nis disposed immediately adjacent a first major surface of the light guide and a second material having a refractive index nis disposed immediately adjacent a second major surface of the light guide. The light guide has a refractive index nwhich is greater than about 1.05 times nwhere nis the larger of nand n. At least one of the first major surface and the second major surface includes a plurality of multiplets where each multiplet includes two or more extraction features.

Laminated display unit

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Woodbury, MN, United States of America

Robert R Kieschke