US Patent Issued to Evonik Operations on Feb. 3 for "Water-based curable composition for production of coatings comprising phosphors" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,277, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Evonik Operations GmbH (Essen, Germany).

"Water-based curable composition for production of coatings comprising phosphors" was invented by Simone Schulte (Essen, Germany), Markus Hallack (Schermbeck, Germany), Michael Huth (Maintal, Germany), Juri Tschernjaew (Aschaffenburg, Germany), Stefan Fischer (Soest, Germany), Thomas Justel (Witten, Germany), Franziska Schroder (Steinfurt, Germany) and Sven Reetz (Gronau, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A water-based curable composition, for production of coatings having an antimicrobial property, contains at least one film-forming polymer, optional...