ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,187, issued on June 17, was assigned to BASF COATINGS GMBH (Muenster, Germany).

"Aqueous resin dispersion and aqueous coating composition containing said resin dispersion" was invented by Andreas Arrian Kunze (Muenster, Germany), Sibylle Schoeps (Muenster, Germany), Rene Hamsen (Muenster, Germany), Dirk Benning (Muenster, Germany), Hildegund Diekmann (Drensteinfurt, Germany), Martin Geuting (Muenster, Germany), Silke Przybilla (Muenster, Germany), Joerg Ressel (Muenster, Germany), Ignacia Rump (Muenster, Germany), Dagmar Schemschat (Senden, Germany), Hubert Theil (Shanghai), Anna Kondrat (Muenster, Germany), Beate Rohkamp (Muenster, Germany), Monika Tiggemann (Drensteinfurt, Germa...