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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2012
Applicant:
Empire Technology Development Llc, Wilmington, DE (US);
Inventors:
William Brenden Carlson, Seattle, WA (US);
Feng Wan, Issaquah, WA (US);
Timothy Londergan, Seattle, WA (US);
Assignee:
Empire Technology Development LLC, Wilmington, DE (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C09D 5/14 (2006.01); C08K 3/00 (2006.01); C09C 1/04 (2006.01); C09C 1/22 (2006.01); C09C 1/36 (2006.01); C08K 9/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C09D 5/14 (2013.01); C08K 3/0033 (2013.01); C08K 9/04 (2013.01);
Abstract
Hydrophilic self-cleaning coating compositions and methods to make and use the compositions are disclosed. The compositions include a pigment material made up of an inorganic pigment attached or linked to at least one oxidizing agent. In some embodiments, the oxidizing agent is an organic molecule covalently or non-covalently attached to the inorganic pigment. In some embodiments, the oxidizing agent is linked to the inorganic pigment by a linker moiety.