ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,854, issued on May 12, was assigned to Conopco Inc. (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.).

"Hair conditioning composition for improved deposition" was invented by Richard Jonathan Barfoot (Chesterfield, Great Britain), Michael James Cooke (Wirral, Great Britain), Cesar Ernesto Mendoza Fernandez (Liverpool, Great Britain) and Paul Damien Price (Wirral, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hair conditioning composition for improved deposition of benefit agents including a linear cationic conditioning surfactant, a linear fatty material, a particulate benefit agent, and a branched cationic co-surfactant. The composition includes 0.01 to 10 ...