ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,299, issued on March 25, was assigned to DAIKIN INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Electrode and electrochemical device" was invented by Shigeaki Yamazaki (Osaka, Japan), Yoshiaki Honda (Osaka, Japan), Toshiharu Shimooka (Osaka, Japan), Yoshimi Motonari (Osaka, Japan) and Hisashi Mitsuhashi (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrode having a coating layer formed from a composition including a perfluoropolyether group-containing compound represented by the formula (A1), (A2), (B1), (B2), (C1), (C2), (D1), (D2), (E1) or (E2) as defined herein, wherein in the composition, compounds represented by formulae (A2), (B2), (C2),...