ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,583, issued on May 26, was assigned to BASF COATINGS GMBH (Muenster, Germany), COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Fort Collins, Colo.) and CYPRIS MATERIALS (Berkeley, Calif.).

"Multilayer coating systems obtained from block copolymer containing basecoat compositions" was invented by Rosalva Castrejon Bokhart (Research Triangle Park, N.C.), Qingling Zhang (Southfield, Mich.), Donald H. Campbell (Hartland, Mich.), Daniel Patrick Ferris (Southfield, Mich.), Garret Miyake (Fort Collins, Colo.), Ryan Pearson (Berkeley, Calif.), Matthew Ryan (Berkeley, Calif.), Luke Whitson (Berkeley, Calif.) and Alexander Hess (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U...