US Patent Issued to Shin-Etsu Chemical on March 17 for "Addition-curable organopolysiloxane composition, release paper and release film" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,429, issued on March 17, was assigned to Shin-Etsu Chemical Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Addition-curable organopolysiloxane composition, release paper and release film" was invented by Toshiaki Ihara (Annaka, Japan) and Tsuneo Kimura (Annaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One of the purposes of the present invention is to provide an addition-curable organopolysiloxane composition which cures sufficiently with a minor amount of platinum group metal catalyst to exert satisfactory adhesion and provides a cured film having a release force comparable to the prior art cured film, and to provide an addition-curable organopolysiloxane composi...