ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 10 -- 3M Innovative Properties, St. Paul, Minnesota, has been assigned a patent (9,909,036) developed by three co-inventors for a "pressure-sensitive adhesive composition and pressure-sensitive adhesive tape." The co-inventors are Jun Fujita, Tokyo, Japan, Yorinobu Takamatsu, Sagamihara, Japan, and Sawako Kojima, Tokyo, Japan. The abstract states: "A pressure-sensitive adhesive composition is disclosed. The composition comprises a particulate polymer of a monomer mixture c . . .