ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,832, issued on April 15, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Fluorine-containing elastomer composition and method for making cured fluorine-containing elastomer composition" was invented by Chung-Ming Huang (Tainan, Taiwan), Ren-Guan Duan (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chen-Hsiang Lu (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan) and Tien-Chih Cheng (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluorine-containing elastomer composition includes a curable fluorine-containing polymer comprising at least one fluorinated cure site monomer having a cure site; an group IIIB element-containing reinforcing additive in an am...