ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,805, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to AWI Licensing LLC (Wilmington, Del.).

"Stable high temperature coating compositions and methods of preparing and using the same" was invented by Linzhu Zhang (Ephrata, Pa.), John E. Hughes (Lincoln University, Pa.), Jason T. Cavanaugh (Lancaster, Pa.) and Lori Jo L. Shearer (Millersville, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a coating composition suitable for application to a panel. The coating composition exhibits stability upon exposure to high temperatures. The coating composition comprises calcium carbonate; titanium dioxide; opacity pigment composite comprising TiO2 encap...