US Patent Issued to BASF COATINGS, NISSAN MOTOR on Feb. 10 for "Method for forming multilayer coating film" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,802, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to BASF COATINGS GMBH (Muenster, Germany) and NISSAN MOTOR Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Method for forming multilayer coating film" was invented by Takeshi Tsunoda (Kanagawa, Japan), Tomoyuki Okamoto (Yokohama, Japan), Satoshi Watanabe (Yokohama, Japan), Naoki Kuriyama (Yokohama, Japan), Kouta Futamata (Yokohama, Japan), Takeshi Gotou (Yokohama, Japan) and Chie Michiura (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a method for forming a multilayer coating film by sequentially coating an intermediate coating material composition, a base coating material composition and a clea...