US Patent Issued to L'OREAL on Jan. 13 for "Antimicrobial mixture containing 4-(3-ethoxy-4-hydroxyphenyl) butan-2-one, and cosmetic composition containing same" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,329, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to L'OREAL (Paris).

"Antimicrobial mixture containing 4-(3-ethoxy-4-hydroxyphenyl) butan-2-one, and cosmetic composition containing same" was invented by Florence Menard-Szczebara (Chevilly Larue, France), Sylvie Cupferman (Chevilly Larue, France), Gael Malet (Chevilly Larue, France) and Julien Galvan (Chevilly Larue, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an antimicrobial mixture containing 4-(3-ethoxy-4-hydroxyphenyl)butan-2-one and an additional compound chosen from a monovalent or divalent metal salt of pyrithione, piroctone olamine, diazolidinylurea, a hexamidine compo...