ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,853, issued on July 22, was assigned to FIRMENICH SA (Satigny, Switzerland).

"Cleavable multi-alcohol-based microcapsules" was invented by Andreas Herrmann (Satigny, Switzerland), Damien Berthier (Satigny, Switzerland), Serge Lamboley (Satigny, Switzerland), Kitty Van Gruijthuijsen (Satigny, Switzerland) and Nicolas Paret (Satigny, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a process for a preparation of microcapsules based on cleavable multi-alcohols. Also described herein are cleavable multi-alcohol-based microcapsules. Also described herein are perfuming compositions and consumer products including such capsule...