ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,566, issued on May 27, was assigned to Encapsys LLC (Appleton, Wis.).

"Compositions comprising benefit agent containing delivery particle" was invented by Johan Smets (Lubbeek, Belgium), Conny Erna Alice Joos (Beggenhout, Belgium), Pierre Verstraete (Woluwe-Saint Pierre, Belgium), Linsheng Feng (Menasha, Wis.), Fadi Selim Chakar (Neenah, Wis.) and Robert Stanley Bobnock (Menasha, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions that include benefit agent delivery particles, the particles having a core and a shell encapsulating the core, the shell including certain acrylate-based polymers. Processes for making and using such compositi...