US Patent Issued to SWIMC on July 28 for "Urethane acrylic hybrid polymer dispersion with robust dry/wet adhesion and basecoats prepared therefrom" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,338, issued on July 28, was assigned to SWIMC LLC (Cleveland).

"Urethane acrylic hybrid polymer dispersion with robust dry/wet adhesion and basecoats prepared therefrom" was invented by Zhangqing Yu (Twinsburg, Ohio), Ali Javadi (Bedford Heights, Ohio), Abhijit J. Suryawanshi (Cleveland) and Alexandra K. Sinclair (Cleveland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention relates to urethane acrylic hybrid polymer dispersion with robust dry/wet adhesion and the basecoats prepared therefrom for automotive applications. In this system, the polyurethane dispersion (PUD) prepolymer is based on a combination of polyols and aliphatic diisocya...