ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,909, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to BASF COATINGS GMBH (Muenster, Germany).

"Cardanol-derivatives modified polymer and a coating composition comprising the same" was invented by Han Bin Wang (Shanghai), Qiang Li (Shanghai) and Stefan Hirsemann (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a cardanol-derivatives modified polymer obtained from a reaction of epoxy groups in a cardanol-derivative compound and carboxyl groups in a carboxyl-functional polymer, where the cardanol-derivative compound is the reaction product of cardanol-derivatives modified with haloalkylene oxide having a carbon number of from 3 to 10. Als...