ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,439, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to SWIMC LLC (Cleveland).
"Paint tinting adjuvant with siccative for liquid colorant system" was invented by Jacob S. Donlon (Cleveland), Mark W. Ellsworth (Cleveland) and Patricia Olofsson-Elkow (Cleveland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A point-of-sale custom color system for tinting base paints and stains includes an array of water-only fluid colorants, including at least white, green, blue and red water-only colorants, which can be used to tint water-borne paints and stains. When tinting solvent-borne base paints or stains, at least one siccative is added to the solvent-borne base paint or stai...