ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,131, issued on April 22, was assigned to Conopco Inc. (Englewood Cliffs, N.Y.).

"Deposition system for hair" was invented by Colin Christopher David Giles (Wirral, Great Britain) and Rongrong Zhou (Wirral, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hair treatment composition comprising: a) a conditioning base comprising: i) a cationic conditioning surfactant having from 16 to 32 carbon atoms; ii) a fatty alcohol having from 8 to 22 carbon atoms; and b) from 0.1 to 10 wt % of metal pyrithiones and mixtures thereof; wherein the composition further comprises: (c) from 0.1 to 5 wt % of a diesterquat; and wherein the ratio of b) to c) ...