ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,321, issued on July 22, was assigned to Conopco Inc. (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.).
"Packaged deodorant stick product" was invented by Amit Arora (Leeds, Great Britain), Frank Van Der Blom (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Timothy Huw Gray (Leeds, Netherlands) and Cornelius Sebastianus Maria Verhoeve (Veghel, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A packaged deodorant stick product comprising a deodorant stick composition mounted on an axially immobile retaining member, the retaining member being reversibly connected to a holder enabling the deodorant stick product to be held in the human hand, wherein the retaining member comprises arcuate b...