ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,774, issued on July 22, was assigned to PPG Coatings (Tianjin) Co. LTD. (Tianjin, China).

"Aqueous soft touch coating composition and wear-resisting coating formed by same" was invented by Shengzhi Xu (Suzhou, China), Haifeng Liu (Suzhou, China), Siqi Gao (Suzhou, China) and Zhengsong Luo (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a multi-layer coating system comprising: (a) a first coating layer formed from a first coating composition; and (b) a second coating layer applied directly over at least a portion of the first coating layer and formed from a second coating composition. The present invention...