US Patent Issued to W. L. Gore & Associates on March 17 for "Method of wetting low surface energy substrate and a system therefor" (Delaware Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,429, issued on March 17, was assigned to W. L. Gore & Associates Inc. (Newark, Del.).

"Method of wetting low surface energy substrate and a system therefor" was invented by Alexander L. Agapov (Newark, Del.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a method of wetting a low surface energy substrate with a high surface tension liquid comprising at least the steps of providing a low surface energy substrate having a surface energy in the range of from 15 to 45 mN/m, a high surface tension liquid having a surface tension in the range of from greater than 25 to 70 mN/m and a low surface tension fluid having a surface tension in t...