US Patent Issued to The Procter & Gamble on Aug. 26 for "Odorless thiols for permanent waving, straightening and depilatory applications" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,104, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Odorless thiols for permanent waving, straightening and depilatory applications" was invented by Guiru Zhang (Lebanon, Ohio), Stephanie Lee Davis (Liberty Township, Ohio), Bryan Patrick Murphy (Loveland, Ohio) and David Salloum (West Chester, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a chemical class of odorless thiols which can serve as reducing agents. This chemical class involves thiols which can be used as reducing agents for permanent styling treatments, depilatory compositions and other applications. The odorless thiols are thiols havi...