ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,595, issued on March 3, was assigned to KANSAI PAINT Co. LTD. (Hyogo, Japan).

"Aqueous coating material composition and method for forming multilayer coating film" was invented by Kazuya Watanabe (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present invention is to provide an aqueous coating material composition that has excellent storage stability and that demonstrates high coating film performance and strong glass adhesiveness even when cured at a relatively low temperature. The present invention discloses an aqueous coating material composition including (A) a hydroxyl group- and carboxyl group-containing resin,...