ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,597, issued on March 3, was assigned to DAIKIN INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Electronic device" was invented by Hisashi Mitsuhashi (Osaka, Japan), Takashi Nomura (Osaka, Japan), Masato Naitou (Osaka, Japan), Yuusuke Watanabe (Osaka, Japan), Kaori Ozawa (Osaka, Japan), Shinya Takano (Osaka, Japan) and Peter Hupfield (Dusseldorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device comprising a surface-treating layer formed on at least a part of a surface thereof, the surface-treating layer being formed of a (poly)ether group-containing silane compound represented by any of the formulae (A1), (A2), (B1), (B2), (C1), or (C2). ...