US Patent Issued to SWIMC on Sept. 9 for "Crosslinked coating compositions for packaging articles such as food and beverage containers" (French, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,337, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to SWIMC LLC (Cleveland).

"Crosslinked coating compositions for packaging articles such as food and beverage containers" was invented by Joseph D. Desousa (Pittsburgh), Sebastien Gibanel (Givry, France), Benjamin J. Webster (Pittsburgh), Kailas B. Sawant (Mars, Pa.) and Benoit Prouvost (Nantes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of forming a coating on a food or beverage container, which includes spraying a coating composition onto an interior surface of the food or beverage container, where the coating composition includes a latex copolymer and a metal drier or crosslinking agent. Th...