ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,249, issued on May 12, was assigned to MUYLLE-FACON (Izegem, Belgium).

"Wood coating compositions" was invented by Arne Verduyn (Moorsele, Belgium), Elke De Meyer (Heule, Belgium), Jan Torfs (Beerse, Belgium) and Sam Van Der Heijden (Sint-Niklaas, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an improved wood coating composition wherein said composition (C) comprises, relative to the total weight of composition (C), from 58.00 to 95.00 weight percentage of at least one alkyd resin or at least one drying oil, from 0.10 to 8.00 wt. % of at least one microcrystalline wax having a congealing point from 60deg C. t...