US Patent Issued to Red Spot Paint & Varnish on May 20 for "Coating compositions and methods, and articles coated with same" (Indiana Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,059, issued on May 20, was assigned to Red Spot Paint & Varnish Co. Inc. (Evansville, Ind.).

"Coating compositions and methods, and articles coated with same" was invented by Mark A. Parker (Evansville, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are sealing primer compositions that can be used to reduce paint defects such as pops or vapor boil on painted plastic substrates, as well as related methods for sealing plastic substrates, and scaled plastic substrates. Sealing primer compositions of the invention include a functionalized polydiene polymer such as a hydroxylated or other functional-group-containing polybutadiene polymer."...