US Patent Issued to Colgate-Palmolive on July 29 for "Oral compositions" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,132, issued on July 29, was assigned to Colgate-Palmolive Co. (New York).

"Oral compositions" was invented by Venda Porter Maloney (Metuchen, N.J.), Laurence Du-Thumm (Princeton, N.J.), Luciana Rinaudi Marron (Somerset, N.J.), Stacey Lavender (Chesterfield, N.J.), Vyoma Patel (Hillsborough, N.J.), Ekta Makwana (Monroe, N.J.), Andrei Potanin (Hillsborough, N.J.), Baran Teoman (Union, N.J.), Shashank Potnis (North Brunswick, N.J.), Gayatri Sachin Patel (Edison, N.J.) and Carl Myers (Wayne, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are oral compositions comprising an amino acid and a gelling agent. In certain embodiments, the...