US Patent Issued to Washington State University on May 26 for "Ambient temperature curable coating and uses therein" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,537, issued on May 26, was assigned to Washington State University (Pullman, Wash.).

"Ambient temperature curable coating and uses therein" was invented by Jinwen Zhang (Pullman, Wash.) and Tuan Liu (Pullman, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a novel room-temperature curable bio-based epoxy vitrimer with a simple design of the chemical structure. A hempseed oil-derived glycidyl ester type epoxy (HOEP) was synthesized and then blended with a bisphenol A epoxy (DER331) to manipulate the properties of the resulting vitrimer s. An aliphatic amine hardener, diethylenetriamine (DETA), was selected as hardener to realize the ...