US Patent Issued to TRINSEO EUROPE on June 24 for "Method for producing acrylic solid surface with improved color and scratch appearance" (Kentucky, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,345, issued on June 24, was assigned to TRINSEO EUROPE GMBH (Pfaeffikon, Switzerland).

"Method for producing acrylic solid surface with improved color and scratch appearance" was invented by Mohammad Mohammadkhani (Florence, Ky.), Roger Neil Caldwell (Erlanger, Ky.) and Sebastian Joseph (Mason, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This technology is directed to a well-dispersed micronized pigment (carbon black and/or metal oxides such as iron oxide and zinc sulfide) which is added to Aristech's acrylic solid surface formulation at 0.5-5 wt % resulting in a solid surface with an enriched color and improved surface scratch appearance. T...