US Patent Issued to AGC on Oct. 21 for "Fluorinated ether compound, fluorinated ether composition, coating liquid and article" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,540, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to AGC Inc. (Tokyo).

"Fluorinated ether compound, fluorinated ether composition, coating liquid and article" was invented by Taiki Hoshino (Tokyo), Kiyotaka Takao (Tokyo), Kazue Toda (Tokyo), Kenji Ishizeki (Tokyo) and Akira Isobe (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluorinated ether compound is represented by formula: [X23-n2R23n2Si-R22-]3C-R21-[N(R2)C(O)]p2-(Rf2O)m2-Q2-[C(O)N(R2)]p2-R21-C[-R22-SiR23n2X23-n2]3. Rf2 is a fluoroalkylene group having no branched structure, Q2 is a fluoroalkylene group having no branched structure, R2 is a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group, R21 is a single bond, an...