ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,995, issued on March 24, was assigned to NICHIAS Corp. (Tokyo) and KYOTO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Kyoto, Japan).

"Compound, crosslinking agent and crosslinked fluoroelastomer" was invented by Tomoya Shimizu (Tokyo), Ayumi Toh (Tokyo) and Tsutomu Konno (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a crosslinking agent which can improve crosslinked fluoroelastomer high-temperature vapor resistance and a crosslinked fluoroelastomer having improved high-temperature vapor resistance. The present invention provides a compound having a structure represented by the following formula (1) (in the formula, R1 to R...