US Patent Issued to WELLA OPERATIONS US on July 28 for "Curable, solvent removable gel for nails" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,658, issued on July 28, was assigned to WELLA OPERATIONS US LLC (Calabasas, Calif.).

"Curable, solvent removable gel for nails" was invented by Sunan Yuvavanich (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), Elizabeta Pavlovic (Los Angeles) and Paul Bryson (Hidden Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Photopolymerizable topcoat and color coat gel compositions suitable for forming a photopolymerized nail coating are described. Both gel compositions include a mixture of one or more pre-formed polymers, a (meth)acrylic monomer, a multi-(meth)acrylate crosslinker, a UV photoinitiator and an antioxidant. The color coat gel composition includes pigments,...