ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,299, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Milliken & Co. (Spartanburg, S.C.).

"Composition comprising hueing agent" was invented by Wesley A. Freund (Simpsonville, S.C.), Richard Lawson (Greer, S.C.), Sanjeev K. Dey (Spartanburg, S.C.) and Nolan Peevy (Roebuck, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention relates to a laundry care composition comprising a laundry care ingredient and a polymeric thiophene hueing agent."

The patent was filed on May 21, 2024, under Application No. 18/669,663.

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