US Patent Issued to TOSOH on Jan. 13 for "Method for producing fluororesin" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,679, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to TOSOH Corp. (Shunan, Japan).

"Method for producing fluororesin" was invented by Kota Sakaguchi (Yokkaichi, Japan), Kazunari Iwanaga (Yokkaichi, Japan), Tomoya Shimono (Yokkaichi, Japan), Tomonari Nagai (Yokkaichi, Japan) and Hiroshi Yamakawa (Yokkaichi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention pertains to: a fluororesin that includes a residue unit represented by formula (1), and a terminal group represented by formula (2); and a fluororesin that includes a residue unit represented by formula (1) and has a transmittance of 50% or more measured at an optical path length of 10 m...