US Patent Issued to DOW GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, DOW SILICONES on March 17 for "Aqueous acrylic textured layer forming compositions useful as top coats for synthetic sport surfaces" (Swiss, Belgian, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,427, issued on March 17, was assigned to DOW GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Midland, Mich.) and DOW SILICONES Corp. (Midland, Mich.).

"Aqueous acrylic textured layer forming compositions useful as top coats for synthetic sport surfaces" was invented by Jouko Vyorykka (Waedenswil, Switzerland), Sophie Hauswalt-Grolieres (Erstein, France), Adrian J. Birch (Kempraten-Jona, Switzerland), Robert Baumann (Rueschlikon, Switzerland) and Jean-Paul Lecomte (Brussels).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides two-component aqueous textured layer forming compositions useful for forming flexible top coat layers for sports surfaces. ...