ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,528, issued on April 29, was assigned to Dow Global Technologies LLC (Midland, Mich.) and Rohm and Haas Co. (Collegeville, Pa.).
"Aqueous polymer formulation" was invented by Yin Xue (Shanghai) and Thierry Egraz (Valbonne, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a composition comprising an aqueous medium, and further comprising, dispersed in the aqueous medium: (a) particles (a) that comprise a maleated polyolefin (a), and (b) particles (b) that comprise an acrylic polymer (b), wherein the acrylic polymer (b) comprises, by weight based on the solid weight of the acrylic polymer (b): (i) 0.1% to 10% polymerized units of hydro...