ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,869, issued on April 14, was assigned to PPG Industries Ohio Inc. (Cleveland).
"Intumescent coating composition" was invented by Shuang Ma (Nieuw-Vennep, Netherlands), Ronnie Peskens (Haarlem, Netherlands) and Christophe Grenier (Pittsburgh).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses an intumescent coating composition, a method for coating a substrate with said composition, a substrate coated with said composition, an article comprising said substrate, and a method to provide fire protection for a battery and/or an article comprising a battery in particular a vehicle comprising a lithium ion battery."
The patent ...