ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,118, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to KAO Corp. (Tokyo).
"External skin preparation" was invented by Arisu Nakatani (Sumida-ku, Japan) and Nobuo Takazawa (Sumida-ku, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An external skin preparation is described, and contains an oil-soluble ultraviolet absorber, 0.5% by mass or more and 20% by mass or less of an oil gelling agent, and 50% by mass or more of a non-aqueous volatile component. The external skin preparation is unlikely to drip upon application, provides an impression from use of less oiliness and less tightness, is likely to have a uniform distribution of the oil-soluble ultraviolet ab...