ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,941, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to L'OREAL (Paris).
"Cosmetic composition that resists pilling" was invented by Nicholas David Stebbins (Clark, N.J.) and David Chan (Edison, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pilling-resistant cosmetic composition is in the form of an oil in water emulsion that includes a water phase and an oily phase, and includes at least one cosmetically acceptable polymeric thickener selected from the group consisting of crosspolymers, gums, taurate based polymers, carbomers, polyacrylates, and combinations thereof, at least one ethoxylated agent in liquid form at ambient temperature in a range from about...