US Patent Issued to PPG Industries Ohio on Feb. 24 for "Curable coating compositions" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,620, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to PPG Industries Ohio Inc. (Cleveland).

"Curable coating compositions" was invented by Marvin Michael Pollum Jr. (Pittsburgh), Maria Santa French (Berkshire, Great Britain), Daniel Patrick Willis (North Versailles, Pa.), Masayuki Nakajima (Wexford, Pa.), Loubna Pagnotti (Wexford, Pa.), David Joseph Fortman (Pittsburgh), Joseph Peter Kriley (Valencia, Pa.), Hongying Zhou (Allison Park, Pa.) and Kathrine Elizabeth Flood (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are curable compositions comprising an epoxide-functional polymer, a curing agent capable of reacting with the epox...