ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,769, issued on June 10, was assigned to TOSOH Corp. (Shunan, Japan) and NITTO DENKO Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Fluororesin, fluororesin particles, and methods for producing these" was invented by Shohei Yumino (Yokkaichi, Japan), Tomoya Shimono (Yokkaichi, Japan), Kota Sakaguchi (Yokkaichi, Japan), Tomonari Nagai (Yokkaichi, Japan), Kazunari Iwanaga (Yokkaichi, Japan), Masao Tanabiki (Yokkaichi, Japan) and Toru Doi (Yokkaichi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Resin particles including a unit of formula (1) and having a volume average particle diameter 5 to 2000 micro metre, a method for producing, and a fluororesin comprising a unit ...