ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,017, issued on March 17, was assigned to Edgewell Personal Care Brands LLC (Chesterfield, Mo.).
"Sunscreen composition with enhanced photoprotection" was invented by Michael Russell (Madison, N.J.) and Daniel Torri (Morristown, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sunscreen composition includes a sunscreen active, a carrier, and a film former polymer. The sunscreen active may be selected from organic sunscreen actives. The carrier may include an amphiphile monolayer to encapsulate a least a portion of the total amount of the sunscreen active. The film former polymer may include an acrylic film former polymer selected from C1-C30 al...