ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,174, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Arkema Inc. (King of Prussia, Pa.).
"Functional fluoropolymers" was invented by James T. Goldbach (Paoli, Pa.), Wengsheng He (Wayne, Pa.) and Andrew Kahn (Eagleville, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to novel linear, semi-crystalline, functional fluoropolymers that have been obtained by copolymerizing a fluorinated vinylic monomer and a hydrophilic (meth)acrylic comonomer bearing a halogen functionality."
The patent was filed on April 9, 2019, under Application No. 17/045,263.
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