US Patent Issued to KANSAI PAINT on Dec. 23 for "Coating composition and method for forming multilayer coating film" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,621, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to KANSAI PAINT Co. LTD. (Hyogo, Japan).

"Coating composition and method for forming multilayer coating film" was invented by Kenji Mori (Kanagawa, Japan), Tatsuya Azuma (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takahiro Hidaka (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a coating composition from which a coating film having excellent decontamination properties, scratch resistance, and transparency can be formed. Specifically, provided is a coating composition containing a resin (A) having a hydroxyl group and an alkoxysilyl group, a curing agent (B), and an acrylic resin-coated silica particle (C) di...