US Patent Issued to SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL on Dec. 16 for "Resin-coated metal powder, method for producing same and aqueous coating composition using same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,518, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Resin-coated metal powder, method for producing same and aqueous coating composition using same" was invented by Shotaro Aoki (Joetsu, Japan) and Ayumu Kiyomori (Joetsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A resin-coated metal powder according to the present invention is obtained by covering at least a part of the surface of a metal powder with a hydrolyzable resin that has an average composition of general formula (1) and a number average molecular weight of from 500 to 100,000; and this resin-coated metal powder exhibits sufficient dispersibility in an a...