US Patent Issued to BASF COATINGS on July 14 for "Coatings containing branched polyester polyols as plasticizers" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,992, issued on July 14, was assigned to BASF COATINGS GMBH (Muenster, Germany).

"Coatings containing branched polyester polyols as plasticizers" was invented by Emerson Keith Colyer (Whitehouse, Ohio) and Ali A. Rihan (Whitehouse, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a coating composition including (A) a physically curing, reactively self-curing and/or externally curing component, including, based on a total solids content of component (A), from 0.1% by weight to about 2.5% by weight of a branched polyester polyol, preparable by: (a) reacting a polyol including at least three hydroxyl groups with an aliphatic dicar...