ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,305, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Conopco Inc. (Hoboken, N.J.).

"Naturally derived surfactant system with polyglycerol esters and compositions comprising the same" was invented by Thomas Alan Kwan (Sudbury, Mass.), Jennifer Hyeeun Kwon (Naperville, Ill.), Teanoosh Moaddel (Watertown, Conn.), Mingjun Yuan (Woodbridge, Conn.) and David Waters (Seymour, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed to a naturally derived surfactant system and an end use composition comprising the surfactant system. The naturally derived surfactant system comprises an anionic and nonionic surfactant comprising polyglycerol ...