ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,307, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to MENNO CHEMIE-VERTRIEB GMBH (Norderstedt, Germany).

"Compositions for cleaning skin and/or hands comprising lemon juice or lemon juice concentrate" was invented by Jan Nevermann (Hamburg, Germany) and Wolfgang Zerling (Kaltenkirchen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a lemon juice-containing composition and its use for cleaning skin and/or hands. The composition comprises 5-30% by weight lemon juice or a lemon juice concentrate, 0.5-10% by weight phenoxyethanol, 2-60% by weight anionic surfactant and ad 100% by weight water. The composition is particularly s...