US Patent Issued to G3 Enterprises on March 17 for "Apparatus and methods using coatings for metal applications" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,427, issued on March 17, was assigned to G3 Enterprises Inc. (Modesto, Calif.).

"Apparatus and methods using coatings for metal applications" was invented by Michael Phillips (Modesto, Calif.) and John Cunningham (Tracy, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes obtaining a metal substrate coated with a polymeric film which includes a first polymer obtained using a cationic photoinitiator and a second polymer obtained using a free-radical photoinitiator. The method further includes deep drawing the metal substrate and the polymeric film while the polymeric film is in a first crosslink density state and curing the deep-...