ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,309, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to DOW GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Midland, Mich.).

"Aqueous coating composition and method of preparing thereof" was invented by Yan Wu (Shanghai), Hu Li (Shanghai), Baoqing Zheng (Shanghai) and Jia Tang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aqueous coating composition contains (A) an emulsion polymer comprising, based on the weight of the emulsion polymer, from 5% to 28% by weight of structural units of a cycloalkyl (meth) acrylate, from 0.05% to 10% by weight of structural units of a phosphorous acid monomer, a salt thereof, or mixtures thereof, from zero to 10% by weight of an additional et...