ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,935, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Dow Global Technologies LLC (Midland, Mich.).

"Storage stable PCM containing aqueous cool coatings for flexible foams" was invented by Hamideh Ahmadloo (Horgen, Switzerland), Jouko Vyorykka (Waedenswil, Switzerland), Anja Arlt (Horgen, Switzerland), Paul A. Cookson (Schindellegi, Switzerland) and Ricco Borella (Horgen, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides cooling, substantially formaldehyde and alkylphenylethoxylate (APEO) free aqueous coating compositions of a soft acrylic or vinyl copolymer binder comprising from 1.8 to 5 wt. %, based on the total weight...