US Patent Issued to Cavana Holdings on Oct. 27 for "Slip-resistant compositions with optical wear indication" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,393, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Cavana Holdings LLC (Sheldon, S.C.).

"Slip-resistant compositions with optical wear indication" was invented by Steven W. Hicks (Corcoran, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A luminescent slip-resistant composition for use on concrete surfaces. The composition includes a plurality of luminescent granules including a base granular material that comprises one or more of silica, aluminum oxide and a granular polymer material, each granule coated with a luminescent material, an average size of the plurality of luminescent granules being in a range of 2 micro metre to 2,000 micro metre; and a liqu...