US Patent Issued to NIPPON PAINT AUTOMOTIVE COATINGS on May 20 for "Clear coating composition and method for producing coated article" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,062, issued on May 20, was assigned to NIPPON PAINT AUTOMOTIVE COATINGS Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Clear coating composition and method for producing coated article" was invented by Takeshi Horii (Hirakata, Japan), Hiroyuki Komaki (Hirakata, Japan), Koji Matsumoto (Hirakata, Japan) and Shotaro Kajihara (Hirakata, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a clear coating composition which affords a coating film having superior resistance to color shift and is superior in coating workability while having a high solid content. A clear coating composition including a hydroxy group-containing acrylic resin (A), a polyisocyanate comp...