ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,436, issued on May 27, was assigned to UCL BUSINESS LTD (London).
"(Super) hydrophobic material and coating" was invented by Manish Kumar Tiwari (Harrow, Great Britain), Graham Leslie Wright (Tadley, Great Britain) and Tanmoy Maitra (Middlesex, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides compositions for forming a hydrophobic or superhydrophobic material, the composition comprising a polyol component having at least two hydroxyl groups per molecule on average; an isocyanate component having at least two isocyanate groups per molecule on average; a single population of nanoparticles having a particle size less ...