ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,215, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to MITSUBISHI GAS CHEMICAL COMPANY INC. (Tokyo).

"Method of manufacturing crystalline and amorphous forms of 6,6'-diphenyl-2,2'-bis(2-hydroxyethoxy)-1,1'-binaphthyl and thermoplastic resin therefrom" was invented by Shinya Ikeda (Niigata, Japan), Noriyuki Kato (Tokyo), Manabu Hirakawa (Hiratsuka, Japan), Karl Reuter (Freiburg, Germany), Vasyl Andrushko (Freiburg, Germany), Mark Kantor (Freiburg, Germany) and Florian Stolz (Freiburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for forming a crystalline form or an amorphous form of 6,6'-diphenyl-2,2'-bis(2-hydroxyethoxy)-1,1'-binaphthyl and thermop...