US Patent Issued to BASF COATINGS on April 8 for "Method for transferring an embossed structure to the surface of a coating" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,202, issued on April 8, was assigned to BASF COATINGS GMBH (Muenster, Germany).

"Method for transferring an embossed structure to the surface of a coating" was invented by Jan-Bernd Kues (Muenster, Germany), Susanne Piontek (Muenster, Germany), Joerg Exner (Muenster, Germany), Joerg Lenz (Muenster, Germany), Birgit Kleine-Bley (Muenster, Germany), Wilfried Schipper (Dortmund, Germany), Robert von der AA (Borsdorf/OT Panitsch, Germany), Frank Bergmann (Halle, Germany), Michael Lorenz (Halle, Germany), Sven Olle Krabbenborg (Leipzig, Germany) and Joerg Duennewald (Muenster, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure ...