Patents by Inventor Iain Stuart WOODWARD

Iain Stuart WOODWARD has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method and apparatus for the formation of hydrophobic surfaces
    Patent number: 10029278
    Abstract: The invention relates to the application of a coating to a substrate in which the coating includes a polymer material and the coating is selectively fluorinated and/or cured to improve the liquid repellance of the same. The invention also provides for the selective fluorination and/or curing of selected areas of the coating thus, when completed, providing a coating which has regions of improved liquid repellance with respect to the remaining regions and which remaining regions may be utilized as liquid collection areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: SURFACE INNOVATIONS LIMITED
    Inventors: Jas Pal Singh Badyal, Iain Stuart Woodward
  • Method and apparatus for the formation of hydrophobic surfaces
    Patent number: 9056332
    Abstract: The invention relates to the application of a coating to a substrate in which the coating includes a polymer material and the coating is selectively fluorinated and/or cured to improve the liquid repellance of the same. The invention also provides for the selective fluorination and/or curing of selected areas of the coating thus, when completed, providing a coating which has regions of improved liquid repellance with respect to the remaining regions and which remaining regions may be utilized as liquid collection areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: P2i Limited
    Inventors: Jas Pal Singh Badyal, Iain Stuart Woodward
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR THE FORMATION OF HYDROPHOBIC SURFACES
    Publication number: 20100330347
    Abstract: The invention relates to the application of a coating to a substrate in which the coating includes a polymer material and the coating is selectively fluorinated and/or cured to improve the liquid repellance of the same. The invention also provides for the selective fluorination and/or curing of selected areas of the coating thus, when completed, providing a coating which has regions of improved liquid repellance with respect to the remaining regions and which remaining regions may be utilized as liquid collection areas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2010
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: SURFACE INNOVATIONS LIMITED
    Inventors: Jas Pal Singh BADYAL, Iain Stuart WOODWARD