ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 30 -- Akron Polymer Systems, Akron, Ohio, has been assigned a patent (8,871,882) developed by eight co-inventors for a "method for the preparation of styrenic fluoropolymers." The co-inventors are Xiaoliang Zheng, Hudson, Ohio, Dong Zhang, Uniontown, Ohio, Jiaokai Jing, Uniontown, Ohio, Ted Calvin Germroth, Kingsport, Tennessee, Frank W. Harris, Boca Raton, Florida, Thauming Kuo, Kingsport, Tennessee, Bin Wang, Kingsport, Tennessee, and Douglas Stephens McWilliams, Piney Fl . . .