ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,103, issued on Sept. 16.

"Dissolvable fibrous web structure article comprising active agents" was invented by Robert Wayne Glenn Jr. (Liberty Township, Ohio), Rajeev Chhabra (Mason, Ohio), William Maxwell Allen Jr. (Liberty Township, Ohio) and Jonathan Paul Brennan (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The personal care compositions of the present invention are in the form of an Article comprising a dissolvable fibrous web structure. The fibers of the dissolvable fibrous web structure comprise a surfactant; a water soluble polymeric structurant; and a plasticizer. Additionally the ratio of the water soluble water soluble polyme...