US Patent Issued to THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT, KANEKA AMERICAS HOLDING, KANEKA on Dec. 30 for "Nanocomposite coating system via one-step co-assembly" (Connecticut, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,596, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT (Storrs, Conn.), KANEKA AMERICAS HOLDING (Pasadena, Texas) and KANEKA Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Nanocomposite coating system via one-step co-assembly" was invented by Luyi Sun (Storrs, Conn.), Anna Marie Lachance (Storrs, Conn.), Tianlei Zhou (College Station, Texas) and Young Lim (College Station, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a nanocomposite coating system that exhibits superior barrier properties for reducing the ingress of unwanted guest species such as moisture (e.g., water vapor) and a facile method for preparing the same nanocoat...