US Patent Issued to AWI Licensing on Feb. 10 for "High solids color face and edge coatings for building panels" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,111, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to AWI Licensing LLC (Wilmington, Del.).

"High solids color face and edge coatings for building panels" was invented by Lida Lu (Coraopolis, Pa.), Kenneth G. Caldwell (Mountville, Pa.), Michelle X. Wang (Lititz, Pa.) and John E. Hughes (Lincoln University, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a coated building panel having a body and a surface coating atop the body, the surface coating comprising inorganic pigment and a polymeric dispersant comprising a polymer backbone and pendant side chains extending from the polymer backbone; wherein the surface coating comprises a liquid car...