ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,763, issued on July 1, was assigned to Akzo Nobel Coatings International B.V. (Amsterdam).

"High temperature curable coating composition" was invented by Alexander Leo Yahkind (Nashville, Tenn.), Jeffrey Charles Krotine Jr. (Nashville, Tenn.) and Theodore Canterbury (Nashville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a high temperature curable coating composition comprising: (a) at least one film-forming resin, (b) at least one crosslinker for the film-forming resin, wherein the crosslinker is not substantially reactive at temperatures under 120deg C., and (c) an anticorrosive agent, which comprises a combination...