US Patent Issued to AWI Licensing on Feb. 24 for "Flame retardant clear coatings for building panels" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,936, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to AWI Licensing LLC (Wilmington, Del.).

"Flame retardant clear coatings for building panels" was invented by John E. Hughes (Lincoln University, Pa.) and Suzanne M. Huntzinger (Lancaster, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed to a flame-retardant building panel comprising a body having a first major surface opposite a second major surface, an inorganic coating atop the first major surface, the inorganic coating comprising a flame retardant component that includes a phosphate compound, and a metal complexing agent. In other aspect, the invention is a method of formin...