ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,900, issued on June 9, was assigned to Evonik Operations GmbH (Essen, Germany).

"Photostabilized compositions and a method for stabilizing photosensitive components" was invented by Stephan Brinkmann (Giessen, Germany), Martin Schilling (Bonn, Germany), Anne Benedikt (Frankfurt, Germany), Christina Jost (Alsbach-Hahnlein, Germany) and Tamara Heinze (Mainhausen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Photostabilized compositions may include a water-soluble tyrosine-containing compound with a molecular weight of below 1 kDa and at least one photosensitive component. A method for stabilizing one or more photosensitive components may incl...