ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,062, issued on March 31, was assigned to Shiseido Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Powdery solid cosmetic preparation" was invented by Yuuji Sonoyama (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An objective of the invention is to provide a powdered solid cosmetic that has excellent powder dispersibility and high impact resistance, while also having a texture similar to that in the case in which an elastic spherical powder is blended. The powdered solid cosmetic according to the present invention contains (A) a non-elastic spherical powder having a crushing strength per particle of 30 MPa or higher; (B) 1% to 15% by mass of iron oxide; (C) a gel-type pa...