US Patent Issued to SWIM on July 14 for "Multilayer coating with digital printing" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,980, issued on July 14, was assigned to SWIM LLC (Cleveland).

"Multilayer coating with digital printing" was invented by Jade Yoon Joo Muns (Minneapolis) and Ted R. Best (Lakeville, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayer coating system for metal substrates is described. The coating system includes a digital printed coating layer applied to the substrate and a clear coating layer applied over the digital printed coating layer. The digital printed coating layer is applied using a jet process and the inks used are inorganic inks. The described multilayer coating system demonstrates a color change (triangleE) of no more than 5...