US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on Sept. 9 for "Fluorinated aromatics and methods of using same" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,267, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Fluorinated aromatics and methods of using same" was invented by Hui Ren (Woodbury, Minn.), Daniel J. Harrison (St. Paul, Minn.) and Eileen G. Burke (St. Paul, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for heat transfer includes a device and a mechanism for transferring heat to or from the device. The mechanism includes a working fluid that includes a fluorinated aromatic compound having structural formula (I): where Q is a carbon atom or a nitrogen atom; G is an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom; each R1 is, independently, a fluoroalkenyl gr...