US Patent Issued to PPG Advanced Surface Technologies on Aug. 12 for "Multilayer color and/or effect giving coating and method of forming a basecoat layer" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,926, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to PPG Advanced Surface Technologies LLC (New Albany, Ohio).

"Multilayer color and/or effect giving coating and method of forming a basecoat layer" was invented by Peter Farber (Gartringen, Germany), Heiko Veth (Denkendorf, Germany) and Helge Warta (Ditzingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayer color and/or effect coating on a substrate, wherein the coating includes a clearcoat layer having a dry film thickness of 10 micro metre to 50 micro metre, and the coating includes a basecoat layer having a dry film thickness of 6 micro metre to 35 micro metre, incorporating color and/or ef...