ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,326, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to KAO Corp. (Tokyo).

"Aerosol composition" was invented by Akiko Mieno (Sumida-ku, Japan) and Sho Idomoto (Sumida-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerosol composition including an aerosol stock solution containing a cationic surfactant (A) and a linear saturated higher alcohol (B), and a propellant (C) containing carbon dioxide. The component (A) containing a mono-long-chain-alkyl cationic surfactant (A1). A content of the component (A) being 0.9% by mass or more and less than 6.0% by mass in the aerosol stock solution. A molar ratio [(B)/(A1)] of the component (B) with respect to the ...