ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,012, issued on July 7, was assigned to L'OREAL (Paris).

"Stable foamed cleansing composition and methods of use" was invented by Hungta Lin (Teaneck, N.J.), Ritesh Kumar Sinha (Linden, N.J.), Trung Vu (Clark, N.J.), Mariko Hasebe (New York) and Hy Si Bui (Piscataway, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes stable foamed cleansing compositions. The compositions include: (a) about 8 wt. % to about 40 wt. % of one or more acyl glycinate surfactants, salts thereof, or combinations thereof; (b) one or more magnesium salts providing divalent cations having a charge density of about 40 to about 200 C/mm3 and a wa...