ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,020, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to GUJARAT FLUOROCHEMICALS Ltd. (Noida, India).
"Process for polymerizing fluoromonomers using a combination of fluorinated and nonfluorinated surfactant" was invented by Rajeev Chauhan (Bharuch, India), Gaurav Kumar (Bharuch, India), P.S. Rao (Bharuch, India), Navin Soni (Bharuch, India), B.S. Bhattacharya (Bharuch, India), Anamika Dutta (Bharuch, India) and Anand Mohan Patel (Bharuch, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses a process for polymerizing fluoromonomers in an aqueous medium to form a fluoropolymer, said process comprising the steps of: (a) forming an aqueou...