ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,440, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to DAIKIN INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Welded body" was invented by Hitoshi Imamura (Osaka, Japan), Eri Mukai (Osaka, Japan), Hiroyuki Hamada (Osaka, Japan), Yuuki Kuwajima (Osaka, Japan) and Manabu Fujisawa (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a welded body having a connecting structure formed by welding a first molded body and a second molded body, wherein the first and second molded bodies contain at least one copolymer selected from the group consisting of a tetrafluoroethylene/fluoro (alkyl vinyl ether) copolymer and a tetrafluoroethylene/hexafluoro...