ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,973, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to HENKEL AG & Co. KGAA (Duesseldorf, Germany).
"Highly alkaline textile detergent comprising protease" was invented by Christian Degering (Erkrath, Germany), Susanne Wieland (Zons/Dormagen, Germany), Shohana Islam (Rheinbach, Germany) and Claudia Lindner (Solingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a textile detergent having at least one protease and a detergent 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 with the ...