ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,936, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to BASF COATINGS GMBH (Muenster, Germany).

"Coating material system based on a bismuth-containing catalyst comprising at least one aromatic substituent" was invented by Peter Hoffmann (Muenster, Germany), Benedikt Schnier (Muenster, Germany) and Christian Beckhaus (Muenster, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a coating material system including components (A) to (C) and optional further components. The optional components may be separated from one another, or they may also be wholly or at least partly mixed The coating material system may additionally include at least one...