ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,963, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Henkel AG & Co. KGaA (Dusseldorf, Germany).

"Low-molecular gelling agent as fragrant substance dispensing system" was invented by Filiz Yapici (Duesseldorf, Germany), Peter Schmiedel (Duesseldorf, Germany), Boray Torun (Duesseldorf, Germany), Danuta Bedrunka (Dormagen, Germany), Daniel Harms (Grossefehn, Germany), Mahdis Hesami (Duesseldorf, Germany) and Anja Von Kathen (Wuppertal, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A perfume oil storage composition may include at least one low-molecular gelling agent, at least one perfume oil and water, the low-molecular gelling agent forming a dispersed p...