ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,677, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Resonac Corp. (Tokyo).

"(meth)acrylic acid ester compound having isocyanate group and method for producing same" was invented by Tomomitsu Wakabayashi (Tokyo) and Yoshihiko Maeda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The objective of the present invention is to reduce the content of dialkylcarbamoyl chloride contained in a (meth)acrylic acid ester compound having an isocyanate group. The present invention includes a method for producing a (meth)acrylic acid ester compound having an isocyanate group in which the content of dialkylcarbamoyl chloride is 0.1 mass % or less, where the method include...