ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,073, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Colgate-Palmolive Co. (New York).

"Oral care compositions and methods of use" was invented by Zhigang Hao (Bridgewater, N.J.), Erin Laskowski (Manville, N.J.), Victoria Yeung (Livingston, N.J.), Mania Bankova (Highland Park, N.J.), Long Pan (Somerset, N.J.), Yun Xu (Langhorne, Pa.), Peng Yan (Guangzhou, China), Fusong Sun (Martinsville, N.J.), Zheng Yang (Guangzhou, China), Chi-Yuan Cheng (Hillsborough, N.J.) and Tatiana Brinzari (Piscataway, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stabilized oral care composition comprises amino acids and traditionally incompatible flavor components. Methods of ma...