US Patent Issued to SWIMC on Nov. 25 for "Easy-clean coating compositions with additives having zwitterionic moieties" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,008, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to SWIMC LLC.

"Easy-clean coating compositions with additives having zwitterionic moieties" was invented by Stephanie L. Castro (Westlake, Ohio) and Patrick K. Donovan (Parma, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Coated articles and self- or easy-cleaning paint and coating compositions including a carrier liquid, a binder resin and additives, wherein such additives include, but are not limited to, a polymer or oligomer with at least one zwitterionic moiety. The carrier liquid is water, an organic solvent, or a combination thereof. The binder resin may be a waterborne latex, an acrylic-amino, alkyd,...