ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,407, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Personal cleansing compositions, methods and uses" was invented by Jessa Leigh Meyers (Cincinnati) and Edward Dewey Smith III (Mason, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A personal cleansing composition includes: (a) a surfactant system, wherein the surfactant system includes: from about 0.1% to about 5%, of a fatty acyl isethionate surfactant; from about 0.5% to about 40%, of a co-surfactant, wherein the co-surfactant is selected from the group consisting of an anionic surfactant being not an isethionate surfactant, a non-ionic surfactant, an amphoteric ...