ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,783, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Nippon Kayaku K.K. (Tokyo).

"Polymer compound, and resin composition containing said compound" was invented by Yasumasa Akatsuka (Tokyo) and Shigeo Hayashimoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A polymer compound represented by formula (1). In formula (1), R1 and R2 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a methyl group. In formula (1), m and n are average numbers of repeating units, and each independently represent a real number within the range of 1 to 2000. The polymer compound has sufficient flexibility to be able to form a film, exhibits high adhesion to a low roughness copper ...