MUMBAI, India, July 5 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517056029 A) filed by Chemetall Gmbh; and Basf Coatings Gmbh, Frankfurt, Germany, on June 10, for 'post-rinse pretreatment with aqueous compositions containing alkaline earth metal ions.'

Inventor(s) include Castle, Laurence; Kolberg, Thomas; Kauling, Lukas; Gelbrich, Thorsten; and Lueckerath, Thorsten.

The application for the patent was published on July 4, under issue no. 27/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention relates to a method for pretreatment of at least one metal surface of a substrate, method comprising at least steps 1) and 2), namely, contacting the at least one surface of t...