ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,732, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Symrise AG (Holzminden, Germany).

"Cyclopropanated sandalwood type compounds" was invented by Vijayanand Chandrasekaran (Holzminden, Germany) and Bernd Holscher (Halle, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention is in the field of fragrances and relates to novel fragrance compounds according to general formula (I) derived from campholenic aldehyde with a sandalwood-based note and improved acid stabilities. Furthermore, the present invention also relates to fragrance compositions comprising one or more of the inventive compounds. Moreover, the invention relates to the use of these comp...