ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,375, issued on April 7, was assigned to PPG Coatings (Kunshan) Co. Ltd. (Jiangsu, China).

"Polysiloxane-based coating composition" was invented by Langfeng Fan (Jiangsu, China), Jianfei Shi (Jiangsu, China), Ping Jin (Jiangsu, China) and Lingyun Sun (Jiangsu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The instant application relates to a polysiloxane-based coating composition, comprising: Polysiloxane of formula I wherein each R1 is independently a hydroxyl group or an alkyl, aryl or alkoxy group having up to 6 carbon atoms, each R2 independently is hydrogen or alkyl or aryl group having up to 6 carbon atoms, and n is selected so that the ...