ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,360, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to HENKEL AG & Co. KGAA (Duesseldorf, Germany).
"Highly alkaline textile washing agent comprising protease" was invented by Christian Degering (Erkrath, Germany), Susanne Wieland (Zons/Dormagen, Germany), Claudia Lindner (Solingen, Germany) and Shohana Islam (Rheinbach, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a textile washing agent having at least one protease and a washing agent ingredient for cleaning textiles by removing protease-sensitive stains. The protease may have proteolytic activity and include an amino acid sequence having at least 70% sequence identity w...