ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,372, issued on May 13, was assigned to ADVANCED INNERGY LTD. (Gloucester, Great Britain) and DOW SILICONES Corp. (Midland, Mich.).

"Protective coatings" was invented by Simon Harry Shepherd (Gloucester, Great Britain), Laura Louise Jordan (Gloucester, Great Britain), Anil Naik (Gloucester, Great Britain), Tatiana Dimitrova (Seneffe, Belgium) and Anne-Marie Van Stiphoudt (Seneffe, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mixture curable in the presence of a suitable metallic catalyst to provide an intumescent coating material. The mixture comprises: a siloxane polymer; a cross-linker for cross-linking the siloxane polymer; filler, whe...