ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,134, issued on July 29, was assigned to Dow Global Technologies LLC (Midland, Mich.), Rohm and Haas Co. (Collegeville, Pa.) and Dow Silicones Corp. (Midland, Mich.).

"Personal care formulation" was invented by Tian Lan (Langhorne, Pa.), Fanwen Zeng (Audubon, Pa.), Xiaodong Lu (North Wales, Pa.), Inna Shulman (Langhorne, Pa.), Michaeleen L. Pacholski (Collegeville, Pa.), Isabelle Van Reeth (Incourt Walloon Brabant, Belgium), Helene Dihang (Taisnieres-sur-Hon, France), Tanvi S. Ratani (Pittsburgh), Jason S. Fisk (Freeland, Mich.), Tzu-Chi Kuo (Midland, Mich.) and Rachael M. Smith (Douglassville, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Perso...