US Patent Issued to BASF COATINGS on Oct. 14 for "NIR light scattering coatings and compositions for preparing them" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,907, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to BASF COATINGS GMBH (Muenster, Germany).

"NIR light scattering coatings and compositions for preparing them" was invented by Thomas Chase (Wyandotte, Mich.), Matthew Ian Childers (Southfield, Mich.), Yunus Emre Kurtoglu (Southfield, Mich.) and Markus Mundus (Munster, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a coating composition being a basecoat or a clearcoat composition and including at least one polymer as a film-forming binder (A), nanoparticles (B) containing at least one noble metal and/or at least one alloy and/or oxide thereof, as well as water and/or at least one organ...