ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,905, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to CONOPCO INC. (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.).

"Hair conditioning composition for improved deposition" was invented by Richard Jonathan Barfoot (Chesterfield, Great Britain), Michael James Cooke (Wirral, Great Britain), Kelvin Brian Dickinson (Wirral, Great Britain), Hailey Kelso (Chester, Great Britain), Cesar Ernesto Mendoza Fernandez (Liverpool, Great Britain), Paul Damien Price (Wirral, Great Britain) and Neil Scott Shaw (Rochdale, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composition comprising: (i) 0.01 to 10 wt % of a linear, cationic conditioning surfactant; (ii) 0.1 to 10 wt % of a line...