ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,613, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to AXALTA COATING SYSTEMS IP Co. LLC (Wilmington, Del.).

"Coating compositions and related methods" was invented by Shih-Wa Wang (Glen Mills, Pa.), Petra Stoffel (Cologne, Germany), Michael S. Wolfe (Wilmington, Del.), Matthias Baltrusch (Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany) and Michael R. Koerner (Media, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of preparing a coated article is disclosed. The method includes providing a substrate bearing a partially-dehydrated aqueous coating layer. The method further includes providing a coating composition to a high transfer efficiency applicator, the high transfer ...