ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,849, issued on June 17, was assigned to Henkel AG & Co. KGaA (Dusseldorf, Germany).

"Method for dyeing keratinous material, comprising the use of an organosilicon compound, a dyeing compound, a sealing reagent, and a polymer-containing post-treatment agent" was invented by Gabriele Weser (Essen, Germany), Jing Hodes (Hagen, Germany), Leonie Hansen (Duesseldorf, Germany), Ulrike Schumacher (Duesseldorf, Germany), Claudia Kolonko (Remscheid, Germany), Caroline Kriener (Duesseldorf, Germany), Imme Breuer (Duesseldorf, Germany), Angela Mueller (Grevenbroich, Germany), Marcus Claas (Hilden, Germany) and Bernhard Banowski (Duesseldorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by t...