US Patent Issued to PIERRE FABRE DERMO-COSMETIQUE on Dec. 30 for "Extract of Silybum marianum (L.) gaertn. akenes for promoting hair growth" (French, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,293, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to PIERRE FABRE DERMO-COSMETIQUE (Boulogne-Billancourt, France).

"Extract of Silybum marianum (L.) gaertn. akenes for promoting hair growth" was invented by Jean-Hilaire Saurat (Geneva), Daniel Bacqueville (Toulouse, France) and Helene Duplan (Auzeville Tolosan, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an extract of Silybum marianum (L.) Gaertn. akenes, as well as compositions containing this extract for application in the fields of cosmetics and dermatology for promoting hair growth."

The patent was filed on Aug. 6, 2020, under Application No. 17/632,941.

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