ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,874, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to EVONIK OPERATIONS GMBH (Essen, Germany).

"Qualitative or quantitative characterization of a coating surface" was invented by Philipp Isken (Altenberge, Germany), Sandra Bittorf (Witten, Germany), Oliver Kroehl (Cologne, Germany), Claudia Bramlage (Essen, Germany), Markus Vogel (Kamp-Lintfort, Germany), Stefan Silber (Krefeld, Germany), Gaetano Blanda (Haltern am See, Germany), Olivia Lewis (Berlin) and Daniel Haake (Potsdam, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for providing a coating composition-related prediction program, the method comprising: providing a ...