US Patent Issued to Henkel on June 3 for "Compressed unit dose toilet cleaning tablets" (Connecticut, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,893, issued on June 3, was assigned to Henkel AG & Co. KGaA (Duesseldorf, Germany).

"Compressed unit dose toilet cleaning tablets" was invented by Daniel Thomas Piorkowski (Fairfield, Conn.), Christopher Michael Rodriguez (Brewster, N.Y.), Glenn William Kaye (Norwalk, Conn.) and Daniel Peter Sterling (Fairfield, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compressed unit dose toilet cleaning tablet for use with a wand. The unit dose contains surfactant, organic acid, and an organic acid buffering agent and is compressed into a tablet or puck that dissolves in toilet water after cleaning. The tablet has a top surface, a bottom surface, a he...