ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,041, issued on June 10, was assigned to PowderCoil Technologies LLC (Crown Point, Ind.).

"System and method for electrostatic coating" was invented by Robert McShane (Evergreen Park, Ill.), Alex Duchak (Frankfort, Ill.), Steve Murray (Roselle, Ill.), Jeremy Murray (Roselle, Ill.) and Parakh Kantawala (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention generally relates to an electrostatic coating system for spraying a stream of particles onto a medium, and in particular to a system comprising one or more apparatuses equipped with a powder coating suspension device. What is also contemplated is the use of a powder management...