ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,672, issued on April 21, was assigned to DAIKIN INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Curable composition" was invented by Isao Iida (Tokyo), Kazuhisa Ono (Tokyo), Tetsuo Fujimoto (Tokyo), Kazuki Maruhashi (Osaka, Japan) and Hisashi Mitsuhashi (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A curable composition includes a perfluoro(poly)ether group-containing silane compound represented by the general formula (I) (wherein, definitions of each group are as described in the specification); (b) an organic silicon compound having at least two OR2 groups bonded to Si atom (here, R2s are each independently a hydrogen atom or a monovalent organic...