US Patent Issued to Colgate-Palmolive on Sept. 15 for "Oral care compositions" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,118, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Colgate-Palmolive Co. (New York).

"Oral care compositions" was invented by Payal Arora (Bridgewater, N.J.), Harsh Mahendra Trivedi (Hillsborough, N.J.), James Masters (Ringoes, N.J.), Rabab Ahmed (Somerset, N.J.), Sarita Vera Mello (North Brunswick, N.J.) and Sergio Leite (Monmouth Junction, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are oral care compositions comprising vitamin D, or a derivative thereof; an alkanoic acid of formula R-COOH or an alkali metal salt thereof, wherein R is a C1 to C13 hydrocarbyl group; and an orally acceptable carrier. Methods of making and using same ...