ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,363, issued on June 24, was assigned to BYK-Chemie GmbH (Wesel, Germany).
"Surface properties of radiation-cured coatings" was invented by Marc Eberhardt (Wesel, Germany) and Guillaume Jaunky (Wesel, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method of improving the surface properties of a radiation cured coating, comprising adding to a radiation-curable coating composition 0.1 to 10.0% by weight, based on the total weight of the radiation-curable coating composition, of a polymer (A) having a polysiloxane backbone and at least two methacryloyl groups connected to the polysiloxane backbone via linking groups, w...