ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,289, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to AXALTA COATING SYSTEMS IP Co. LLC (Wilmington, Del.).
"Electrocoat composition" was invented by Thomas Huesmann (Solingen-Grafrath, Germany), Konstantinos Markou (North Rhine Westfalia, Germany) and Tim Koesterke (North Rhine Westfalia, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aqueous electrocoat compositions having improved throwing power and methods for coating electrically conductive substrates are provided. An exemplary composition includes water, a crosslinkable resin including a binder and a crosslinking agent, and a pigment paste. The exemplary electrocoat composition has a pigment/binder ...