ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,960, issued on March 24, was assigned to UNIMATEC Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Acrylic elastomer copolymer and crosslinkable composition thereof" was invented by Satoru Saito (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An acrylic elastomer copolymer that is a copolymer of (A) an alkyl (meth)acrylate and/or alkoxyalkyl (meth)acrylate monomer, (B) an Alpha,Beta-unsaturated carboxylic acid monomer, and (C) a (meth)acrylate monomer having a carbamic acid ester group represented by the general formula:(wherein R1 is a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, and R2 is a divalent aliphatic hydrocarbon group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms). A crosslinkable ...