ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 1 -- 3M Innovative Properties, St. Paul, Minnesota, has been assigned a patent (8,993,116) developed by Chetan P. Jariwala, Woodbury, Minnesota, Cheryl L.S. Elsbernd, Woodbury, Minnesota, and Thomas M. Butler, Hudson, Wisconsin, for the "blends of fluoroalkyl-containing ester oligomers with polydicarbodiimide(s)."

The patent application was filed on June 6, 2008 (12/602,888). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Pars . . .