US Patent Issued to Akzo Nobel Coatings International on July 1 for "Method for matching a coating of any gloss level" (Dutch, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,570, issued on July 1, was assigned to Akzo Nobel Coatings International B.V. (Amsterdam).

"Method for matching a coating of any gloss level" was invented by Margot Julia Vlot (Leiden, Netherlands), Eric Jacob Jan Kirchner (Leiden, Netherlands) and Unnikrishnan Koodali Thazhathuveetil (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for matching a vehicle coating comprising a basecoat and a clearcoat comprising: providing a database including a plurality of records for different basecoats, each comprising for a combination of one basecoat with a reference clearcoat having a reference gloss value i) a set of reflectance spectr...