US Patent Issued to PPG Industries Ohio on Sept. 15 for "Acrylic polyester resin and an aqueous coating composition containing the same" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,524, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to PPG Industries Ohio Inc. (Cleveland).

"Acrylic polyester resin and an aqueous coating composition containing the same" was invented by Adam B. Powell (Wexford, Pa.), William H. Retsch Jr. (Allison Park, Pa.), Edward R. Millero Jr. (Gibsonia, Pa.), John M. Dudik (Apollo, Pa.), Christopher P. Kurtz (Millvale, Pa.), Michael Olah (Pittsburgh) and Anand K. Atmuri (Wexford, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is described an acrylic polyester resin, obtainable by grafting an acrylic polymer with a polyester material. The polyester material is obtainable by polymerizing (i) a polyacid component...