ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,459, issued on March 18, was assigned to Oddity Labs LLC (New York).

"Compositions, formulations, and methods for hair treatment" was invented by Avinash Boppana (Boston), Kongyu Zhang (Boston), Evan Zhao (Woburn, Mass.), Connor Wilson Coley (Cambridge, Mass.), Enzo Corey Benfanti (Somerville, Mass.), Elizabeth Lee (San Diego), Erin Horgan (Marblehead, Mass.), Tiffany Hua (Princeton, N.J.) and Amy Le (Quincy, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions and formulations for hair treatment are provided herein. Methods for hair treatment, such as methods for preventing or treating hair loss or hair thinning, are also provided her...