US Patent Issued to DOW GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, ROHM AND HAAS on May 6 for "Aqueous coating composition and process for preparing the same" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,643, issued on May 6, was assigned to DOW GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Midland, Mich.) and ROHM AND HAAS COMPANY (Collegeville, Pa.).

"Aqueous coating composition and process for preparing the same" was invented by Jianming Xu (Shanghai), Wei Cui (Shanghai), Yunfei Lan (Shanghai) and Cuilan Chang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage stable aqueous coating composition comprising a novel combination of an anionic acrylic polymer with a small amount of a specific acetoacetamide functional compound and providing coating films made therefrom with formaldehyde abatement property, yellowing resistance, and scrub resistance."

The ...