ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,147, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to MARINE CHEMICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE Co. LTD. (Qingdao City, China).

"Anti-static and sand erosion-resistant coating material for wind turbines and its preparation method" was invented by Lianfeng Wu (Qingdao City, China), Xianming Wang (Qingdao City, China), Junjun Wang (Qingdao City, China) and Liang Ning (Qingdao City, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an anti-static and sand erosion-resistant coating material based on in-situ reinforcement modification of cyclodextrin modified carbon nanotubes and its preparation method. It uses specific diisocyanates for surface pretreatment ...