ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,740,935, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to KAO Corp. (Tokyo).
"Fiber-forming composition" was invented by Nobuyuki Asami (Odawara, Japan), Hikaru Kimura (Wakayama, Japan) and Hirokatsu Sugawara (Sumida-ku, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a coating film, including forming a coating film containing a deposit containing fibers on a surface of an object for forming a coating thereon by an electrostatic spray of a composition. The composition includes component (a) a polymer having a coating film forming ability, (b) one or more volatile substances selected from the group consisting of water, an alcohol and a ke...