US Patent Issued to Henkel on June 24 for "Liquid washing or cleaning agent containing bleach precursor" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,417, issued on June 24, was assigned to Henkel AG & Co. KGaA (Duesseldorf, Germany).

"Liquid washing or cleaning agent containing bleach precursor" was invented by Anna Klemmer (Duesseldorf, Germany), Peter Schmiedel (Duesseldorf, Germany) and Bent Rogge (Duesseldorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application is directed to water and surfactant-containing liquid washing or cleaning agents containing a hydrophobic precursor compound in microemulsified form, from which a peroxycarboxylic acid or the salt thereof can be released by UV radiation. Methods for washing textiles and cleaning hard surfaces using such prec...