US Patent Issued to Agency for Science, Technology and Research on July 15 for "Coating formulation, an article and methods to prepare the same" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,961, issued on July 15, was assigned to Agency for Science, Technology and Research (Singapore).

"Coating formulation, an article and methods to prepare the same" was invented by Xu Li (Singapore), Chin Chong Yap (Singapore), Jiating He (Singapore) and Siew Yee Wong (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a coating formulation comprising an inorganic oxygen scavenger, a surfactant, an activator, a hydrophilic agent, optionally an additive and a plurality of monomers capable of forming a polymeric matrix, and a method to prepare the same. There is also provided an article comprising an inorganic scavenger, a surfac...