US Patent Issued to SWIMC on July 8 for "Coating compositions for packaging articles such as food and beverage containers" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,728, issued on July 8, was assigned to SWIMC LLC (Cleveland).

"Coating compositions for packaging articles such as food and beverage containers" was invented by Sebastien Gibanel (Givry, France) and Benoit Prouvost (Nantes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of forming a coating on a food or beverage container, which includes spraying a coating composition onto an interior surface of the food or beverage container, where the coating composition includes an emulsion-polymerized latex copolymer having copolymer chains of one or more mono-unsaturated monomers that are cross-linked with one or more multi-unsaturated monomers. ...