US Patent Issued to UT-BATTELLE on Sept. 29 for "Temperature sensitive coatings" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,733, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to UT-BATTELLE LLC (Oak Ridge, Tenn.).

"Temperature sensitive coatings" was invented by Hsin Wang (Oak Ridge, Tenn.), Beth L. Armstrong (Oak Ridge, Tenn.), Mary K. Burdette-Trofimov (Oak Ridge, Tenn.) and Chanaka Ihala Gamaralalage (Oak Ridge, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A temperature sensitive coating for application on a surface is provided. The temperature sensitive coating comprises an indicator component. The indicator component includes a carrier and a releasable compound that is held by the carrier. The releasable compound is in a gas state at a critical release temperature, and ...