ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,692, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Conopco Inc. (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.).
"Laundry composition" was invented by Stephen Thomas Keningley (Ynys Mon, Great Britain) and Andrew Peter Rose (Wirral, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composition comprising a plurality of particles and methods for producing the plurality of particles. The particles comprise: 30 to 95 wt. % polyethylene glycol and the polyethylene glycol has a weight average molecular weight from 4000 to 12000. The plurality of particles further includes 0.1 to 60 wt. % of a secondary carrier. The secondary carrier is provided in the form of particles havin...