US Patent Issued to InnoTech Alberta on June 9 for "Antifouling coatings and methods for coating substrates" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,169, issued on June 9, was assigned to InnoTech Alberta Inc. (Edmonton, Canada).

"Antifouling coatings and methods for coating substrates" was invented by Pablo Contreras (Calgary, Canada), Shad W. Siddiqui (Edmonton, Canada), Kai Man Lee (Edmonton, Canada) and Juan Segura (Edmonton, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Coatings for reducing or preventing fouling of surfaces are provided. In some embodiments, the coating comprises a silane compound, a siloxane compound, a phosphonate compound, a silicone polymer such as PDMS (polydimethylsiloxane), or a combination of silane-siloxane-phosphonate-PDMS in various molecular configuratio...