ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,588, issued on March 3, was assigned to SHERWIN-WILLIAMS (GUANGDONG) NEW MATERIAL Co. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Coating composition and wood article manufactured therefrom" was invented by Song Niu (Foshan, China), Hongbin Chen (Foshan, China), Shigang Fan (Foshan, China) and Xi Zhao (Foshan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to a coating composition and wood article manufactured therefrom, the coating composition comprising: (A) a film-forming resin composition comprising a reactive donor capable of providing two or more nucleophilic carbanions, and a reactive acceptor comprising two carbon-carbon ...