ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,910, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to DOW GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Midland, Mich.), DOW SILICONES Corp. (Midland, Mich.) and ROHM AND HAAS COMPANY (Collegeville, Pa.).

"Silicone-based barrier compositions" was invented by Michael P. Tate (Midland, Mich.), Zhifeng Bai (Houston), Jodi M. Mecca (Midland, Mich.), Tirtha Chatterjee (Collegeville, Pa.), Yiyong He (Midland, Mich.), Michael Brasseur (Midland, Mich.), Sudhakar Balijepalli (Midland, Mich.) and John J. Rabasco (Collegeville, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid applied, silicone-based air and water barrier coating composition and its use as a silicone-based air and wat...