ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,244, issued on May 12, was assigned to SILGAN DISPENSING SYSTEMS LE TREPORT S.A.S. (Richmond, Va.).

"Part of a cosmetic article decorated with a resin, and method for covering this part with the resin" was invented by Pierre Dumont (Le Treport, France), Frederic Leleu (Le Treport, France) and Pierre-Yves Gilet (Le Treport, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a part decorated with a polyurethane resin mainly comprising two components. The first component consists of a polyol and the second component consists of isocyanate, the isocyanate-to-polyol weight ratio being comprised between 100:100 and 100:40."

The p...