ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,959, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to ALLNEX AUSTRIA GMBH (Werndorf, Austria).

"Aqueous coating composition for corrosion protection" was invented by Armin Temel (Graz-St Peter, Austria), Florian Lunzer (Brussels) and Erik Bambach (Werndorf, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an aqueous resin dispersion comprising a mixture of a hydrophilically modified epoxy-based resin, a crosslinker, and a co-crosslinker. The present invention also relates to an aqueous coating composition, comprising said resin dispersion, providing improved corrosion and discolouration resistance; to a process for the preparation o...