ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,158, issued on Nov. 4.
"Composition and method for road film removal in a touchless vehicle wash comprising a sodium hypochlorite/anionic surfactant cleaning solution" was invented by Lloyd B Snell (New Kensington, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aqueous vehicle cleaner for removing a wide range of different types of traffic film using a variety of manual or mechanical washing systems. The aqueous vehicle cleaner includes at least one anionic surfactant that is selected from the preferred group consisting of linear alkyl benzyl sulfonates, alpha olefin sulfonates, secondary alkane sulfonates and alkyl sulfates, or selected from ...