US Patent Issued to BASF COATINGS on Dec. 30 for "Bismuth containing electrocoating material with improved catalytic activity" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,593, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to BASF COATINGS GMBH (Muenster, Germany).

"Bismuth containing electrocoating material with improved catalytic activity" was invented by Joerg Ressel (Munster, Germany), Karl-Heinz Grosse Brinkhaus (Munster, Germany), Dirk Benning (Munster, Germany), Janine Juettemeyer (Munster, Germany), Martin Geuting (Munster, Germany), Silke Przybilla (Munster, Germany), Joerg Exner (Munster, Germany) and Petra Wagner (Munster, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is an aqueous electrocoating material including at least one specific binder and at least one bismuth compound, a method of using...