ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,361, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to SEB S.A. (Ecully, France).

"Non-stick coating" was invented by Raphael Turgis (Ecully Cedex, France), Isabelle Joutang (Ecully Cedex, France) and Stephanie Le Bris (Ecully Cedex, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to the use of (Bi1-xAx)(V1-yMy)O4 in a non-stick coating for a household article so as to catalyse the breakdown of the by-products resulting from said coating during the manufacturing process thereof or the use of said household article, characterised in that: x is 0 or x is from 0.001 to 0.999, y is 0 or y is from 0.001 to 0.999, A and M are select...