ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,822, issued on July 1, was assigned to NICE ZHEJIANG TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Zhejiang, China) and NICE GROUP (Zhejiang, China).

"Antimicrobial detergent composition comprising a polyester-polyether polymer and a halogenated phenol antimicrobial agent mixture" was invented by Guoqiang Cai (Zhejiang, China), Qing Zhang (Zhejiang, China), Yibo He (Zhejiang, China), Meilin He (Zhejiang, China), Xiangliang Xu (Zhejiang, China) and Lei Zhang (Zhejiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An antimicrobial detergent composition includes the following components by mass percent: 0.1-10% of a polyester-polyether polymer, 0.01-2% of an antimicrobi...