ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,362, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Henkel AG & Co. KGaA (Duesseldorf, Germany).
"Cleaning agent shaped body" was invented by Sabine Schuemann (Neuss, Germany), Thomas Holderbaum (Hilden, Germany) and Daniel Menham (Duesseldorf, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Cleaning agent shaped bodies having a bearing surface and a dome surface adjoining the bearing surface, the ratio of the maximum diameter of the bearing surface to the maximum diameter of a cross-sectional area of the dome surface parallel to the bearing surface being 1:20 to 4:5. The invention also relates to the use of these bodies and to a method using these cleanin...