ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,690, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Dow Global Technologies LLC (Midland, Mich.), ROHM AND HAAS COMPANY (Collegeville, Pa.) and DOW SILICONES Corp. (Midland, Mich.).
"Aqueous suncare formulation" was invented by Wenjun Xu (Phoenixville, Pa.), Isabelle Van Reeth (Incourt Walloon Brabant, Belgium) and Yuanqiao Rao (Berwyn, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aqueous suncare formulation is provided, including: a cosmetically acceptable aqueous carrier; a suncare active; and a sulfated crystalline cellulose SPF booster; wherein the sulfated crystalline cellulose SPF booster both boosts the SPF of the aqueous suncare formulation and...