US Patent Issued to AXALTA COATING SYSTEMS IP on Aug. 5 for "Process for making a powder for bonding to a substrate" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,420, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to AXALTA COATING SYSTEMS IP Co. LLC (Wilmington, Del.).

"Process for making a powder for bonding to a substrate" was invented by Safraz Kahn (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process includes combining a copolymer and mono- or di-valent metal ions to form a mixture, wherein the copolymer has from about 70 to about 98 wt % of an alpha-olefin moiety and about 2 to about 30 wt % of a (meth)acrylate moiety; reactively extruding the mixture to form a neutralized copolymer having a melt flow index of from about 5 to about 1500 g/10 min, wherein about 2 to about 50 wt % of the (meth)acrylate moiety...