US Patent Issued to KANSAI PAINT on May 13 for "Coating composition, coated article and method for forming multilayer coating film" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,373, issued on May 13, was assigned to KANSAI PAINT Co. LTD. (Amagasaki, Japan).

"Coating composition, coated article and method for forming multilayer coating film" was invented by Masahiro Omura (Aichi, Japan) and Miho Komatsu (Aichi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coating composition includes a binder component (A), a flake-like aluminum pigment (B) having an average particle diameter (d50) of 18 micro metre to 25 micro metre, and a flake-like pigment (C) being a flake-like pigment other than flake-like aluminum pigments and having an average particle diameter (d50) of 8 micro metre to 30 micro metre. A content of the flak...