ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,088, issued on July 15, was assigned to PPG INDUSTRIES OHIO INC. (Cleveland).

"Ambient cure high temperature protective coating" was invented by Qiang Huang (West Roxbury, Mass.) and Dikran Betzig (Bolton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ambient curable coating composition includes a mixture of components comprising a polysiloxane having a Mw of at least 10,000 as determined by gel permeation chromatography using a polystyrene standard, (b) an alkoxy functional polysiloxane, and (c) an inorganic corrosion inhibitor, a method of preparing a corrosion resistant coating comprising (i) applying the coating composition to a substr...