ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,909, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Momentive Performance Materials Inc. (Niskayuna, N.Y.).

"Hydrophobic coating compositions" was invented by Thorsten Felder (Leverkusen, Germany), Jan Engelhardt (Leverkusen, Germany), Anita Witossek (Langenfeld, Germany) and Jorg Hermann (Leichlingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coating composition is provided herein, wherein the coating composition includes an organic binder and a polyorganosiloxane, optionally with a hardener. There is also provided a process for making the same coating composition."

The patent was filed on Jan. 14, 2021, under Application No. 17/793,823.

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