ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,857, issued on May 12, was assigned to BELLA AURORA LABS S.A. (Barcelona, Spain).
"Skin lightening composition" was invented by Sergi Hernandez Navarro (Barcelona, Spain) and Jordi Segura Tejedor (Barcelona, Spain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a cosmetic skin lightening composition comprising the combination of sclareolide, kojic acid and ascorbyl glucoside, wherein kojic acid is encapsulated within a targeted microcapsule or nanocapsule having a melanocortin 1 receptor (MC1R) agonist peptide bound to the surface. It was found that such combination of active substances provided synergistic kin-whiteni...