ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,548, issued on April 14, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Ciincinnati, Ohio).

"Method of treating oxidative stress in skin and compositions therefor" was invented by Tomohiro Hakozaki (Cincinnati), Leo Timothy Laughlin II (Mason, Ohio), Matthew Clair Ehrman (Singapore) and XiPing Ng (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Cellular energy levels in skin cells affected by oxidative stress can be improved through the use of a skin care composition that includes a sucrose ester and a fatty alcohol present at a specific ratio. The fatty alcohol and sucrose ester, when incorporated into a skin care composition at a specific rat...