ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,588, issued on July 29, was assigned to PPG Industries Ohio Inc. (Cleveland).

"Low temperature cure coating composition" was invented by Shanti Swarup (Allison Park, Pa.), Jose Antonio Camerano (Ludwigsburg, Germany), Wolfgang Klaeger (Leonberg, Germany), Richard J. Sadvary (Tarentum, Pa.), Beate Seiler (Obersulm, Germany), Chad A. Landis (Oakmont, Pa.), Caroline S. Harris (Pittsburgh), Tsukasa Mizuhara (Seven Valleys, Pa.) and Hongying Zhou (Allison Park, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coating composition includes: an aqueous medium; a first polymer comprising first core-shell particles dispersed in the aqueous medium, where t...