US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on Dec. 2 for "Hardcoat composition comprising methyl or ethyl trialkoxy silane, articles and methods" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,373, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Hardcoat composition comprising methyl or ethyl trialkoxy silane, articles and methods" was invented by Naiyong Jing (St. Paul, Minn.), Xue Tian (Woodbury, Minn.), Jun Ma (Woodbury, Minn.), Jordan C. DuCharme (Apple Valley, Minn.), Gezahegn D. Damte (Cottage Grove, Minn.) and Xi Chen (Stillwater, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Articles are described comprising a substrate and a hardcoat layer disposed on the substrate. The hardcoat layer comprises the hydrolyzed and condensed reaction product of a composition comprising: i) first hydrophobic ...