US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on July 28 for "Polymerizable compositions and compounds comprising perfluorinated group, hydrolysable silane group, and (meth)acryl group" (Minnesota, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,346, issued on July 28, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Polymerizable compositions and compounds comprising perfluorinated group, hydrolysable silane group, and (meth)acryl group" was invented by Thomas P. Klun (Lakeland, Minn.), Brandon R. Pietz (St. Paul, Minn.), Paul J. Homnick (Lake Elmo, Minn.), Christopher S. Lyons (St. Paul, Minn.), Chad M. Amb (Roberts, Wis.) and Jonathan M. Ryss (St. Paul, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A polymerizable composition is described comprising a fluorinated monomer, oligomer, or mixture thereof; and a coupling agent comprising a (meth)acryl terminal group, a ...