ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,507, issued on April 29, was assigned to Conopco Inc. (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.).

"Deposition system for hair" was invented by Richard Jonathan Barfoot (Wirral, Great Britain), Heather Clarkson (Wirral, Great Britain), Michael James Cooke (Wirral, Great Britain), Kelvin Brian Dickinson (Wirral, Great Britain), Colin Christopher David Giles (Wirral, Great Britain), Cesar Ernesto Mendoza Fernandez (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; ...