ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,532, issued on June 30, was assigned to Lubrizol Advanced Materials Inc. (Cleveland).

"Enhanced deposition compositions for personal care actives" was invented by Seren Frantz (Scotch Plains, N.J.), Michael Knopf (Hackettstown, N.J.), Yi Yang (Bridgewater, N.J.), Robert Jacobs (Olmsted Falls, Ohio) and Carole A. Lepilleur (Akron, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology relates to compositions suitable for depositing personal care actives onto keratinous substrates. More particularly, the technology concerns compositions comprising lipophilic materials which are deposited from an ampholytic-anionic delivery system. ...