US Patent Issued to HEMPEL on May 13 for "Coated structure with a monitoring system, a method for monitoring cracking of a coated structure, a coating system, and a monitoring system" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,267, issued on May 13, was assigned to HEMPEL A/S (Kongens Lyngby, Denmark).

"Coated structure with a monitoring system, a method for monitoring cracking of a coated structure, a coating system, and a monitoring system" was invented by Vadimas Verdingovas (Kongens Lyngby, Denmark), Josep Palasi Bargallo (Kongens Lyngby, Denmark) and Stefan Urth Nielsen (Kongens Lyngby, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coated structure with a monitoring system includes a base having a base surface, a coating system having one or more layers of cured coat providing protection against surface degradation and being joined to the base surface in a...