ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,588, issued on May 6, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Fluoropolymer compositions comprising a curing agent with ethylenically unsaturated and electron donor groups, and substrates coated therewith" was invented by Naiyong Jing (St. Paul, Minn.), Cheng Gu (Golden Valley, Minn.), Klaus Hintzer (Kastl, Germany), Tho Q. Nguyen (Bloomington, Minn.) and Peter J. Scott (Stillwater, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of making a crosslinked fluoropolymer is described. The method comprises applying a composition to a substrate, wherein the composition comprises fluoropolymer and a fluorinated solven...