ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,628, issued on July 1, was assigned to MITSUBISHI GAS CHEMICAL COMPANY INC. (Tokyo).

"Method for producing silane compound" was invented by Kazuyoshi Uera (Tokyo), Syouichi Itoh (Tokyo) and Kohei Kamatani (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method for producing a silane compound, which does not produce corrosive substances such as acids, does not use organic solvents and which contributes to a reduction in environmental load. This method for producing a silane compound has D) a siloxane decomposition step for heating a mixture containing: a siloxane compound A), which is a cyclic siloxane compound A-1) represented by f...