US Patent Issued to SWIMC on May 13 for "Pigment dispersion" (Minnesota, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Kentucky Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,356, issued on May 13, was assigned to SWIMC LLC (Cleveland).

"Pigment dispersion" was invented by David R. Wallace (Eden Prairie, Minn.), T. Howard Killilea (North Oaks, Minn.), Stephen M. Korenkiewicz (Lake Zurich, Ill.), Thomas J. Melnyk (Greenfield, Minn.), Danny G. Hartinger (Hudson, Wis.), Jason S. Ness (Woodbury, Minn.), Jacob Donlon (Prospect, Ky.) and Mark R. Coward (Jeffersonville, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Reactive liquids diluent and reactive dispersing agents for fluid concentrates, colorants and coating compositions, wherein the reactive liquid diluent and reactive dispersing agents have a viscosity less than ...