US Patent Issued to PPG Industries Ohio on July 7 for "High-solids curable film-forming compositions and methods of improving appearance of coatings containing effect pigments" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,016, issued on July 7, was assigned to PPG Industries Ohio Inc. (Cleveland).

"High-solids curable film-forming compositions and methods of improving appearance of coatings containing effect pigments" was invented by Jun Deng (Mars, Pa.) and Hongying Zhou (Allison Park, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "High solids curable film-forming compositions and coating kits are provided, comprising: (a) a polyisocyanate curing agent; and (b) a film-forming component comprising at least one of (i) a secondary-hydroxyl functional (meth)acrylic polyol having pendant ester functional groups and a weight average molecular weight of 4000 to 8000; an...