US Patent Issued to L'OREAL on March 31 for "Mineral sunscreen compositions with high SPF and shelf stability" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,059, issued on March 31, was assigned to L'OREAL (Paris).

"Mineral sunscreen compositions with high SPF and shelf stability" was invented by Zachary Maron (Jersey City, N.J.), Brian Bodnar (Manasquan, N.J.) and Anil Shah (East Windsor, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sunscreen composition is an oil-in-water emulsion of aqueous and oil phases and includes at least one lipophilic acrylate-based oil thickener, at least one mineral UV filter, and at least one nonionic surfactant that is a polyethylene glycol ethers of fatty acids or polyethylene glycol esters of fatty acids, or a combination thereof. The sunscreen composition may ...