US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Nov. 4 for "Multimodal coatings for heat and fire resistance" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,092, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Multimodal coatings for heat and fire resistance" was invented by David Kisailus (Riverside, Calif.) and Ramya Mohan (Riverside, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multimodal coating and method of coating a substrate are disclosed. The coating includes a structural framework; and a medium embedded in the structural framework forming an intumescent coating, the intumescent coating configured to undergo intumescent expansion of an outermost coating of the medium upon heating."

The patent was filed on July 10, 2019, under Applicat...