Patent 7510703 was granted and assigned to L'Oreal Alumni Official Association on March, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Topically applicable cosmetic compositions useful for the UV-A photoprotection of the skin and/or hair contain thus effective amounts of at least one silane, siloxane or polysiloxane merocyanine sulfone having at least one of the structural formulae (1), (2) and (3) below: