ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,008, issued on June 2, was assigned to ALLNEX NETHERLANDS BV (Bergen Op Zoom, Netherlands).

"Waterborne coating composition" was invented by Dirk Mestach (Nijlen, Belgium), Silfredo Bohorquez (Rotterdam, Netherlands), Karin Van De Sanden-Van Aert (Huijbergen, Netherlands) and Ankie Van Gorkum (Oosteind, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to the field of an aqueous vinyl polymer dispersion PD comprising a hydrophilic vinyl oligomer, a hydrophobic vinyl oligomer and a vinyl polymer obtained by the emulsion polymerization of ethylenically unsaturated monomers from petrochemical or renewable origin. T...