ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,209, issued on July 7, was assigned to TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Designing a personalized composition for counteracting skin malodor" was invented by Mohammed Monzoorul Haque (Pune, India), Sharmila Shekhar Mande (Pune, India) and Swadha Anand (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates generally to methods and systems for designing a personalized composition that can counteract or reduce skin malodor. Conventional techniques that prepare compositions to treat specific malodorants are limited and such compositions cannot be personalized to an individual according to the type of malodorant...