ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,724, issued on April 29, was assigned to SWIMC LLC (Cleveland).
"Polyester coating composition for electrodeposition and methods of coating a beverage end coil substrate" was invented by Cassandra Smith (Coraopolis, Pa.), Arthur Riazzi (Harrison City, Pa.) and Adam Cieslinski (Freeport, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides a polyester polymers, and aqueous polyester-based coating composition, for use in forming coatings via electrodeposition. The disclosure also provides materials and methods for electrodepositing coating compositions onto metal substrates, and particularly coil substrates for beverage can ends."...