ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,371, issued on March 17, was assigned to Milliken Industrials Ltd. (Wigan, Great Britain).
"Oxidatively curable coating composition" was invented by Johannes Wietse De Boer (Leiden, Netherlands), Ronald Hage (Leiden, Netherlands), Karin Maaijen (Leiden, Netherlands) and Yfranka Petronella Areke Roelofsen (Leiden, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an oxidatively curable coating formulation comprising an oxidatively curable alkyd-based resin and unsymmetrically substituted 1,4,7-triazacyclononane-based chelant, which chelant may optionally be complexed with a suitable transition metal ion, par...