ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,958, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to KAO Corp. (Tokyo).
"Method for treating textile product" was invented by Ayako Kita (Wakayama, Japan), Yoshinori Otani (Wakayama, Japan) and Yuna Muneyuki (Wakayama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for treating a textile product including, treating the textile product with a treatment liquid and thereafter rinsing the textile product with water, the treatment liquid being obtained by mixing the following components (a) and (b) with water containing a hardness component, provided that the treatment liquid does not include a total of 100 ppm or more of a dicarboxylic acid with 14 or...