US Patent Issued to YISSUM RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT COMPANY OF THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM, SMART RESILIN on Feb. 4 for "Hair care compositions" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,214,066, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to YISSUM RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT COMPANY OF THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM LTD. (Jerusalem) and SMART RESILIN LTD. (Karmei Yosef, Israel).

"Hair care compositions" was invented by Oded Shoseyov (Shoham, Israel), Roni Shalev (Moshav Timorim, Israel), Sigal Baruch-Sharon (Ness-Ziona, Israel), Tal Ben Shalom (Beer-Yaacov, Israel) and Liron Nuttman-Nesial (Rechovot, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are methods, compositions and kits employing cellulose nanocrystals for hair-straightening treatment. Also provided are methods, compositions and kits employing a resilin, for hair-straighteni...