ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,431, issued on March 17, was assigned to KANSAI PAINT Co. LTD. (Hyogo, Japan).
"Method for forming multi-layer coating film" was invented by Kaisei Terada (Aichi, Japan) and Hiroshi Murata (Aichi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method for forming a multi-layer coating film which makes it possible to form a multi-layer coating film which exhibits excellent smoothness and luster. The present invention forms, on a cured electrodeposited coating film formed on a stell plate, a first colored coating film comprising a first coloring coating material (P1), a second coating film comprising a second aqueous coating materi...