US Patent Issued to North China Electric Power University, Ocean Shield on Sept. 1 for "Coating for preventing marine biofouling and preparation method thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,163, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to North China Electric Power University (Beijing) and Ocean Shield Inc. (Montreal).

"Coating for preventing marine biofouling and preparation method thereof" was invented by Zongde Liu (Beijing), Herong Ma (Beijing) and Zhongxun Liu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a coating for preventing marine biofouling and a preparation method thereof, wherein, the coating for preventing marine biofouling, including an antifouling cladding layer disposed on a metal substrate, the antifouling cladding layer is a metastable-phase antifouling cladding layer; the antifouling cladding layer in...