US Patent Issued to DETRAPEL on March 17 for "Nonfluorinated hydrophobic waterborne treatments and coatings" (California, Pennsylvania, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,724, issued on March 17, was assigned to DETRAPEL INC. (Framingham, Mass.).

"Nonfluorinated hydrophobic waterborne treatments and coatings" was invented by David Zamarin (Jamison, Pa.), Casey Wetzel (San Diego) and Juan Jarufe (North Olmstead, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates generally to methods of producing, using, and storing stable aqueously dispersed superhydrophobic compositions made from these compositions to provide superhydrophobic treatments on a range of porous, semi-porous, and non-porous target materials and surfaces as well as combinations of these materials and surfaces. More particula...