ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 20 -- 3M Innovative Properties, St. Paul, Minnesota, has been assigned a patent (No. 9,944,043, initially filed Oct. 2, 2012) developed by six co-inventors for "laminates and methods of making the same." The co-inventors are Thomas P. Hanschen, Mendota Heights, Minnesota, William H. Sikorski Jr., White Bear Lake, Minnesota, Ronald W. Ausen, St. Paul, Minnesota, Paul S. Wallis, Swansea, United Kingdom, Vathsala Rajagopal, Woodbury, Minnesota, and William J. Kopecky, Hudson, . . .