US Patent Issued to L'OREAL on Sept. 8 for "Cosmetic or dermatological composition comprising a merocyanine and a gamma-butyrolactone and/or a gamma-butyrolactam" (French, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,084, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to L'OREAL (Paris).

"Cosmetic or dermatological composition comprising a merocyanine and a gamma-butyrolactone and/or a gamma-butyrolactam" was invented by Flavie Gillant (Chevilly la Rue, France), Xavier Marat (Aulnay-sous-Bois, France), Eva Muller (Ortenburg-Dorfbach, Germany), Angelina Roudot (Chevilly la Rue, France) and Didier Candau (Chevilly la Rue, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a composition, in particular a cosmetic or dermatological composition, comprising: a) at least one merocyanine corresponding to formula (3) below, and also the geometric isom...