ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,635, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to KANSAI PAINT Co. LTD. (Hyogo, Japan).
"Aqueous coating composition" was invented by Yoshitaka Kubo (Miyoshi, Japan), Yusuke Mizutani (Miyoshi, Japan), Takuya Inagaki (Miyoshi, Japan) and Gen Yokota (Miyoshi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides an aqueous coating composition which is capable of forming a coating film that has excellent cissing resistance and water resistance. An aqueous coating composition which contains (A) at least one hydroxyl group-containing resin that is selected from among (A1) hydroxyl group-containing acrylic resins and (A2) hydroxyl grou...