ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,475, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. (New York).

"High performing, high impact bloom accord with a top, medium, and base note mixture" was invented by Miguel A. Teixeira (Oporto, Portugal), Masakatsu Unno (Singapore), Hendrik Helweg (Huizen, Netherlands), Lay Meng Kay (Singapore) and Jung Chul Shin (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are fragrance accords each containing (i) at least 7 wt % of one or more Class 1 fragrance ingredients, (ii) 5 to 85 wt % of one or more Class 2 fragrance ingredients, and (iii) 0 to 80 wt % of one or more Class 3 fragrance ingredients. The Cla...