ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,915, issued on April 15, was assigned to KAO Corp. (Tokyo).

"Fragrance composition" was invented by Saki Nakamura (Wakayama, Japan), Yuya Kitagawa (Tokyo), Takako Igarashi (Wakayama, Japan), Ryuuya Arata (Wakayama, Japan), Yusuke Yamane (Wakayama, Japan) and Shusuke Matsui (Wakayama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is a fragrance composition containing, (A) a fragrance compound, and (B) a compound represented by the following formula 1, wherein R1 and R2 each represent a hydrocarbon group, R1 and R2 having 17 or more carbons in total, A1O and A2O each represent an alkyleneoxy group with 2 or more and 4 or le...