ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,038, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to KAO Corp. (Tokyo).
"Cosmetic composition" was invented by Kaori Hayashi (Shiroi, Japan), Masayuki Narita (Ichikawa, Japan), Naoya Kawakami (Chiba, Japan), Tomokazu Iseki (Izumiotsu, Japan) and Masato Oshika (Chiba, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a cosmetic composition containing the following Components (A), (B), and (C): Component (A): a hydrophobic polymer which dissolves in ethanol at 25deg C. in an amount of 1% by mass or more, and has a glass transition temperature Tg of 30deg C. or higher, the polymer having the same electric charge as the following Co...