ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,175, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to DAIKIN INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Injection-molded body and production method therefor" was invented by Hiroyuki Hamada (Osaka, Japan), Tadaharu Isaka (Osaka, Japan), Hayato Tsuda (Osaka, Japan), Yumi Zenke (Osaka, Japan), Yukari Yamamoto (Osaka, Japan) and Yasuyuki Yamaguchi (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an injection molded article containing a copolymer containing tetrafluoroethylene unit and a fluoro(alkyl vinyl ether) unit, wherein the content of the fluoro(alkyl vinyl ether) unit of the copolymer is 3.9 to 4.8% by mass with respect to the whole of the monomer...