ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,044, issued on March 24, was assigned to DOW TORAY Co. LTD. (Shinagawa-ku, Japan).

"Release control agent, releasable film-forming silicone composition, and release liner" was invented by Takakazu Hino (Ichihara, Japan), Syuji Endo (Ichihara, Japan) and Kazuhiro Nishijima (Ichihara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a release control agent containing a silicone resin having a weight average molecular weight based on standard polystyrene by gel permeation chromatography of 3,000 to 6,000 and expressed by the average unit formula: (R13SiO1/2)a(SiO4/2)1.0, wherein each R1 independently represents an alkyl group with 1 to...