ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,395, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Susonity Commercial GmbH (Germany).

"Effect pigments" was invented by Lukas Hamm (Otzberg, Germany), Carsten Griessmann (Gross-Zimmern, Great Britain), Nicole Nelischer (Gross-Bieberau, Germany) and Marita Jekel (Darmstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Temperature-stable effect pigments based on multicoated flake-form substrates, and the use thereof in paints, coatings, printing inks, plastics and in particular in glazes, enamels, ceramic or glass-like materials."

The patent was filed on April 28, 2020, under Application No. 17/607,777.

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