ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,127, issued on April 22, was assigned to KAO Corp. (Tokyo).
"Composition for forming coating film" was invented by Kaori Ishida (Utsunomiya, Japan), Shingo Hirono (Cincinnati), Tatsuya Fujimoto (Sumida-ku, Japan) and Hideo Kobayashi (Moka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composition for forming a coating film containing fine fibers, imparting an excellent durability to an obtained coating film. The composition for forming a coating film includes the following components (a) and (b): (a) one or more oil agents selected from the group consisting of ester oil, ether oil, hydrocarbon oil and higher alcohol; and (b) a fiber, at 0.5 ...