ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,013, issued on March 4, was assigned to CoaterFX LLC (Reno, Nev.).
"Methods of applying powder coatings to produce finish effects" was invented by Ross Shelton Scott (Reno, Nev.) and Kimberly Victoria Edwards Scott (Reno, Nev.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and processes for applying powder coat faux finishes, and power coat materials associated with such methods and processes are provided. Processes employ one or more partial powder coat layers along with physical texturing techniques to provide a variety of powder coated faux finish effects. Methods may utilize standard powder coating formulations in contrasting combination...