ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,605, issued on March 11, was assigned to Apeel Technology Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).
"Compounds and formulations for protective coatings" was invented by Carlos Hernandez (Goleta, Calif.), Chance Holland (Goleta, Calif.), Stephen Kaun (Goleta, Calif.), Louis Perez (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and Charles Frazier (Goleta, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions for forming protective coatings can include a first group of compounds, where each compound of the first group is a fatty acid, fatty acid ester, or fatty acid salt having a carbon chain length of at least 14 carbons. The compositions can optionally include a second group of...