ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,031, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Central Glass Co. Ltd. (Ube, Japan).

"Method for producing fluorine-containing polymer and composition" was invented by Ryo Nadano (Tokyo), Satoru Miyazawa (Tokyo) and Yuzuru Kaneko (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method for producing a fluorine-containing polymer with little lot-to-lot variation in weight average molecular weight. The method for producing a fluorine-containing polymer of the present invention relates to a method for producing a fluorine-containing polymer containing a repeating unit of formula (1) and a repeating unit of formula (2), which includ...