ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,253, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to BASF COATINGS GMBH (Muenster, Germany).

"Method for transferring an embossed structure to the surface of a coating, and composite employable as embossing mold" was invented by Sven Olle Krabbenborg (Munster, Germany), Tim Buscher (Munster, Germany) and Joerg Duennewald (Munster, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a method for transferring an embossed structure to at least a part of a surface of a coating composition (C2a) using a composite (S1C1) including a substrate (S1) and an at least partially embossed and at least partially cured coating (C1) upon following steps (...