ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,032, issued on Aug. 5.
"Compound for use in protecting skin" was invented by Kieran Clarke (Oxford, Great Britain) and Richard Lewis Veech (Rockville, Md.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of protecting animal tissue particularly skin, from damage caused by radiation exposure, by contacting the tissue with a ketone ester, a method of protecting skin, reducing the deterioration of skin or maintaining or improving the properties of skin by applying topically to the skin a ketone body comprising (R)-3-hydroxybutyrate moieties is disclosed. A ketone body comprising (R)-3-hydroxybutyrate moieties, especially enantiomerically enriched...