US Patent Issued to NIPPON PAINT MARINE COATINGS on March 3 for "Antifouling coating composition and antifouling coating film" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,590, issued on March 3, was assigned to NIPPON PAINT MARINE COATINGS Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Antifouling coating composition and antifouling coating film" was invented by Tomoya Mori (Osaka, Japan), Yasuhisa Nagase (Osaka, Japan) and Mamoru Shimada (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an antifouling coating composition comprising a silicon atom-containing resin. The silicon atom-containing resin includes a constituent unit (A) derived from a monomer (a) having at least one kind of silicon atom-containing group selected from the group consisting of a group represented by a formula (I), a group represented by a fo...