US Patent Issued to Behr Process on Sept. 9 for "Burnish and mar resistant resin for clear and pigmented coatings" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,321, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Behr Process Corp. (Santa Ana, Calif.).

"Burnish and mar resistant resin for clear and pigmented coatings" was invented by Jigui Li (Irvine, Calif.), Christopher Ziehm (Costa Mesa, Calif.), Ryan Hicken (Tustin, Calif.) and Ming-Ren Tarng (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for forming an emulsion polymer includes a step of forming a pre-emulsion by combining a monomer composition with a siloxane-containing composition in water and polymerizing the pre-emulsion by combining the pre-emulsion with a radical initiator in a reactor to form a reaction mixture. Characteristically,...