ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,646, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to BASF COATINGS GMBH (Muenster, Germany).

"Aqueous coating composition containing an epoxy-amine system and an aromatic carboxylic acid as curing catalyst" was invented by Anna Kondrat (Munster, Germany), Egbert Nienhaus (Munster, Germany), Joerg Ressel (Munster, Germany), Karin Wever (Munster, Germany), Silke Przybilla (Munster, Germany), Tim Voegeling (Munster, Germany) and Sibylle Schoeps (Munster, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is an aqueous coating composition containing an aqueous epoxy resin dispersion, an aqueous amine-functional resin dispersion and an aromatic c...