ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,229, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to COVALON TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Mississauga, Canada).

"Coating compositions, polymeric coatings, and methods" was invented by Daryl Sivakumaran (Hamilton, Canada), Daryl Knight (Mississauga, Canada), Vyacheslav Dudnyk (Mississauga, Canada) and Valerio DiTizio (North York, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coating composition comprises an aqueous solution comprising at least one vinyl carboxylic acid monomer and at least one neutral monomer, wherein the at least one neutral monomer has a glass transition temperature of less than about 100deg C. in homopolymeric form. A device comprises a proton...