ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,671, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Conopco Inc. (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.).
"Fabric conditioner composition" was invented by Olivier Back (Lyons, France), Christopher Boardman (Llandyrnog, Great Britain), John Francis Hubbard (Knutsford, Great Britain) and Bala Naga Satyanarayana Thota (Vadodara, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fabric conditioner composition comprising: a) Fabric softening active according to formula (I), wherein each R, is independently selected from C5-C27 aliphatic groups, Y is a divalent C1-C6 aliphatic group, R', R" and R'", are independently selected from hydrogen or a C1 to C4 alkyl group, and X is a...