US Patent Issued to NITTO DENKO on July 1 for "Coating film for structure, set of coating materials for forming coating film, coating material for undercoat layer, and coating method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,769, issued on July 1, was assigned to NITTO DENKO Corp. (Ibaraki, Japan).

"Coating film for structure, set of coating materials for forming coating film, coating material for undercoat layer, and coating method" was invented by Satoru Suzuki (Ibaraki, Japan), Tomoya Ogawa (Ibaraki, Japan), Tomonari Naito (Ibaraki, Japan), Naoki Kurata (Ibaraki, Japan), Satomi Yoshie (Ibaraki, Japan) and Kohei Nagao (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coating film capable of being peeled off in the shape of sheet to facilitate a coating film removal work, and is less likely to peel even after long periods of use on an underwater structure...