ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,584, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to ISP Investments LLC (Wilmington, Del.).

"Oral hygiene compositions for preventing the formation of oral biofilms and process for preparing the same" was invented by Petros Gebreselassie (Whitehouse Station, N.J.), Henry Keith Chenault (Hockessin, Del.), Yevgeniy Turovskiy (Somerville, N.J.) and Karen Winkowski (Springfield, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is an oral hygiene composition comprising a styrene-maleic acid copolymer or terpolymer or salt thereof, wherein the copolymer or terpolymer or salt thereof has a polydispersity ranging from about 2 to about 14 and a minimum...