ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,624, issued on March 18, was assigned to SWIMC LLC (Cleveland).

"Polymer composition for thin coatings" was invented by Hong Ding (Warrensville Heights, Ohio), Weilin Tang (Warrensville Heights, Ohio), Dehui Han (Warrensville Heights, Ohio) and Mahshid Niknahad (Warrensville Heights, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to a resin or polymer system suitable for two-component compositions, and a resin or polymer system configured for durable coatings with only thin coating weights. The resins and polymer systems of this invention provide high performance extremely thin, low gloss coatings with excellent...