US Patent Issued to Dow Global Technologies, Dow Silicones on June 3 for "Weatherable and durable coating compositions" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,832, issued on June 3, was assigned to Dow Global Technologies LLC (Midland, Mich.) and Dow Silicones Corp. (Midland, Mich.).

"Weatherable and durable coating compositions" was invented by Steven Swier (Midland, Mich.), Gary M. Wieber (Midland, Mich.), Erin B. Vogel (Midland, Mich.), John B. Horstman (Midland, Mich.) and Susan M. Machelski (Midland, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A curable coating composition is provided having multi-functionalized acrylic copolymer and amino-functional silicone resin curing agents. The acrylic copolymer of the curable coating composition has, in polymerized form, epoxy functionalized groups and...