US Patent Issued to ECKART on Aug. 4 for "Coated metal effect pigments, method of production and use thereof" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,401, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to ECKART GmbH (Hartenstein, Germany).

"Coated metal effect pigments, method of production and use thereof" was invented by Carolin Brendel (Nuremberg, Germany), Oliver Bedford (Eckental, Germany), Oliver Struck (Hartenstein, Germany), Simone Kreppner (Schnaittach, Germany), Stefan Trummer (Nuremberg, Germany) and Andrea Fetz (Lauf a.d. Pegnitz, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention involves a coated flaky metal effect pigment comprising a metal effect flake as substrate coated by the following consecutive coating sequences: a) optionally a discontinuous or a continuous layer of Mo-o...