ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,041, issued on May 13, was assigned to L'OREAL (Paris).

"Hair care compositions" was invented by Azizah Khader Suleiman (Paterson, N.J.) and Prashansa Mayank Desai (Hoboken, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Hair care compositions and methods for providing conditioning benefits to hair is disclosed. The hair care compositions may include one or more nonionic surfactants comprising one or more alkylpolyglucosides; one or more fatty alcohols; one or more fatty esters comprising caprylic/capric triglyceride; about 0.5 to about 30 wt. % of a fatty compound other than fatty alcohol and fatty ester; one or more silicones comprising polys...