ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,657, issued on July 22, was assigned to WELLA GERMANY GMBH (Darmstadt, Germany).

"Method for coating keratin fibers" was invented by Mathias Kurt Herrlein (Kronberg, Germany), Graham Neil Mckelvey (Hesse, Germany), Matija Crne (Wiesbaden, Germany), Simon Paul Godfrey (Oberursel, Germany), Corinne Violette Mohr (Lorsch, Germany), Ingo Weber (Basel, Germany), Swapna Pinakattu (Reinheim, Germany), Patrick Alexander Kiefer (Darmstadt, Germany), Petra Barbara Braun (Munster, Germany), Andrej Gross (Darmstadt, Germany), Felix Herkner (Eppstein, Germany), Axel Meyer (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) and Carl Uwe Oswald Ludwig Schmidt (Reinheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released b...