ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,082, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Innospec Active Chemicals LLC (High Point, N.C.).

"Pearlizing concentrate compositions and methods of preparation thereof" was invented by Phillip Loraine Cotrell (Salisbury, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A concentrate composition useful as a pearlising agent for adding directly at ambient temperature to liquid chemical formulations such as personal cleaning formulations, laundry detergents, dishwashing detergents and hard surface cleaning compositions and comprising (a) at least 10 wt % of a glycol ester of a fatty acid; (b) at least one acyl alkyl isethionate surfactant of formula (I), ...