US Patent Issued to Queen's University at Kingston on Sept. 15 for "Ice-shedding and smudge-repellant coating" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,578, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Queen's University at Kingston (Kingston, Canada).

"Ice-shedding and smudge-repellant coating" was invented by Guojun Liu (Kingston, Canada) and Alexander Newell Harper (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coating that is able to shed accumulated material (such as ice) that includes a crosslinkable copolymer with hydrogen bonding moieties and liquid-like side chains, and an oil (or other non-aqueous liquid) that is compatible with the side-chains and that resides in the crosslinked coating and on the surface of the coating together with the side-chains that are on the external surface. M...