US Patent Issued to CORNELL UNIVERSITY on July 22 for "Methods and formulations for crosslinking hair or other keratin fibers using oxidized sugars as crosslinking agents" (New York, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,658, issued on July 22, was assigned to CORNELL UNIVERSITY (Ithaca, N.Y.).

"Methods and formulations for crosslinking hair or other keratin fibers using oxidized sugars as crosslinking agents" was invented by Anil N. Netravali (Ithaca, N.Y.) and Namrata V. Patil (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method of crosslinking hair or other keratin fibers by (i) providing a crosslinking agent comprising an oxidized sugar having at least two aldehyde groups; and (ii) infiltrating a plurality of non-crosslinked hair or other keratin fibers with the crosslinking agent under conditions effective to cause protein mol...