US Patent Issued to L'OREAL on March 25 for "Methods for oxidatively bleaching or coloring hair without damaging the hair" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,331, issued on March 25, was assigned to L'OREAL (Paris).

"Methods for oxidatively bleaching or coloring hair without damaging the hair" was invented by Cho-Cho Khine (Scotch Plains, N.J.) and Ronak Rughani (Edison, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is drawn to methods for oxidatively bleaching or coloring hair. The methods employ a fortifying composition and a conditioning composition, which are used in various routines. Treating hair according to the routines prevent, minimize, or mitigate damage to the hair caused by the oxidative bleaching or coloring process. The fortifying composition includes: (a) cit...