ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,960, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Resonac Corp. (Tokyo).

"Fluorine-containing ether compound, lubricant for magnetic recording medium and magnetic recording medium" was invented by Daisuke Yagyu (Tokyo), Tsuyoshi Kato (Tokyo), Naoya Fukumoto (Tokyo), Ayano Asano (Tokyo), Masaki Nanko (Tokyo), Yutaka Tanji (Tokyo) and Shoko Uetake (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a fluorine-containing ether compound represented by the following Formula. R1-[B]-[A]-CH2-R2-CH2-[C]-[D]-R3 (R2 is a perfluoropolyether chain; [A] is Formula (2-1); [B] is Formula (2-2); [C] is Formula (3-1); [D] is Formula (3-2); R3 ...