ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,098, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to LG HOUSEHOLD & HEALTH CARE LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Composition for hair treatment, containing olefin-based unsaturated hydrocarbon-containing oil" was invented by Joong-Hun Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Sang-Hun Song (Seoul, South Korea), Seong-Kil Son (Seoul, South Korea), Yoo-Jung Seo (Seoul, South Korea) and Byung-Tack Lim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a composition for hair and fiber treatment which supplies a transition metal as a catalyst to a thiol residue formed when hair or fiber is damaged in a process of chemical or physical care...