ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,338, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Solenis Technologies LP (Wilmington, Del.).
"Polymeric coating formulation with hydrophobic side chains" was invented by Dirk Stanssens (Houthalen, Belgium), Frank Driessen (Vliermaalroot, Belgium) and Mohammadtaghi Savoji (Glen Allen, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coating formulation including a polymer produced by radical polymerization, wherein said polymer comprises a backbone with one or more monomers, wherein one or more of said monomers comprises one or more hydrophobic side chains, wherein the hydrophobic side chains are alkyl chains with 8 or more carbon atoms, wherein the over...