ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,135, issued on July 29, was assigned to L'OREAL (Paris).

"Anhydrous composition for caring for and/or making up keratin materials" was invented by Tu Luan (Shanghai), Di Wu (Shanghai), Chunyan Lei (Shanghai) and Saijuan Ni (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An anhydrous composition for caring for and/or making up keratin materials may include: (a) 10 to 40 wt. % of at least one non-volatile non-phenyl silicone oil, relative to the total weight of the composition; (b) at least one non-volatile hydrocarbon-based oil and/or phenyl silicone oil; (c) at least one high viscosity ester; and (d) reaction product of an unsaturated-funct...