ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 31 -- 3M Innovative Properties, St. Paul, Minnesota, has been assigned a patent (8,871,298) developed by Mark A. Roehrig, Stillwater, Minnesota, Yufeng Liu, Woodbury, Minnesota, and Robert W. Peterson, Spring Valley, Wisconsin, for a "method for manufacturing on a film substrate at a temperature above its glass transition."

The patent application was filed on Feb. 7, 2007 (12/278,431). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacg . . .