ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,890, issued on June 3, was assigned to Dow Global Technologies LLC (Midland, Mich.).

"Polar polyolefin dispersion based seed coating composition" was invented by Jing Ji (Shanghai), Xue Chen (Manvel, Texas) and Peng Gao (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coated seed comprises a seed, and a coating composition coated on the seed comprising a polar polyolefin dispersion, which comprises: 1) a polar polyolefin; and 2) a neutralizing base; wherein the polar polyolefin is an olefin copolymer that contains one or more polar groups, wherein the polar groups are selected from the group consisting of a carboxylic acid group, a carboxyl...