ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,565, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Conopco Inc. (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.).
"Microcapsule and hair care composition" was invented by Christopher Fidge (Wirral, Great Britain), Stephen Golding (Northwich, Great Britain), Stefan Antonius Franciscus Bon (Coventry, Great Britain), Samuel Richard Wilson-Whitford (Bethlehem, Pa.) and James Merrington (Wirral, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A core shell microcapsule having a liquid core and an outer shell, in which the liquid core comprises solvent and a piroctone compound and the shell comprises polyurea formed from monomeric units of aliphatic isocyanates and amines."
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