ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,005, issued on July 14, was assigned to DOW TORAY Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Co-modified organopolysiloxane and curable organopolysiloxane composition including same" was invented by Yuki Yokouchi (Ichihara, Japan), Tomohiro Iimura (Ichihara, Japan) and Tadashi Okawa (Ichihara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an organopolysiloxane compound serving as a raw material of an organopolysiloxane pressure-sensitive adhesive which has necessary and sufficient pressure-sensitive adhesive strength in a step such as temporary fixing or the like and can be easily peeled off from a substrate in a subsequent step; an organopolysiloxane pr...