ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,002, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to SWIMC LLC (Cleveland).
"Direct-to-metal coating composition" was invented by Sundaresan Avudaiappan (Cleveland), Wendy M. Novelli (Cleveland) and Ganesh S. Desai (Cleveland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fast drying, heavy metal-free, high performance coating composition with outstanding UV resistance, and excellent corrosion resistance coupled with fast dry and long pot life. This coating can be applied over DTM, such as blasted cold rolled steel, or treated cold rolled steel, aluminum and treated aluminum. High corrosion resistance without sacrificing gloss or UV resistance achieved by sele...