US Patent Issued to Hutchinson on Nov. 25 for "Self-sealing coating for fuel tanks" (New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,289, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Hutchinson S.A. (Paris).

"Self-sealing coating for fuel tanks" was invented by Larry W. Stuck (Amherst, N.Y.), Colin G. Vogel (Cheektowaga, N.Y.), Flavien P. Montange (Langhorne, Pa.) and Daniel T. Bruder (Mercerville, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of forming a self-sealing fuel tank includes: providing a container including internal surfaces and external surfaces and configured to hold a fuel; forming a latex coating layer over at least a portion of the internal surfaces and/or external surfaces; depositing or encapsulating an environmental layer over at least a portion of the l...