US Patent Issued to SWIMC on July 29 for "Thermoset undercoating compositions compatible with free-radically cured overcoating for metal substrates" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,573, issued on July 29, was assigned to SWIMC LLC (Cleveland).

"Thermoset undercoating compositions compatible with free-radically cured overcoating for metal substrates" was invented by Jean-Dominique Turgis (Vertou, France) and Marie Edith Quereau (Orvault, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermoset undercoating composition for a food or beverage container or other packaging container, the thermoset undercoating composition comprising a binder polymer, an adhesion promoting additive comprising an aminoplast resin having at least one reactive group having an ethylenically unsaturated double bond that is reactive under free-ra...