MUMBAI, India, May 16 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517039640 A) filed by Dow Global Technologies Llc, Midland, U.S.A., on April 24, for 'compositions and methods for reducing formaldehyde in acrylic or styrene-acrylic polymeric products.'

Inventor(s) include Tong, Bo; Zhong, Ling; Shen, Cheng; and Tang, Zhengming.

The application for the patent was published on May 16, under issue no. 20/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A unique aqueous polymeric composition comprising a combination of an aqueous dispersion of polyacrylic or polystyrene-acrylic particles, at least one cyclic multi-carbonyl compound and at least one hydroxyl group-functionalized amine co...