ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,609, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to AGC Inc. (Tokyo).

"Curable resin composition, resin cured film, partition wall and optical element" was invented by Kotaro Yamada (Tokyo), Hiroyuki Mieno (Tokyo) and Naoko Shirota (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A curable resin composition contains a polyfunctional thiol compound. The polyfunctional thiol compound satisfies the following property (1) or property (2): (1) there is no CH structure two atoms next to an S atom; (2) in a compound obtained by adding ethylene to all SH groups in the polyfunctional thiol compound, an electrical charge of a hydrogen atom bonded to a carbon atom wh...