ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,579, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).
"Fabric care unit dose articles with capsules" was invented by Andre Martim Barros (Woluwe Saint Etienne, Belgium), Pierre Daniel Verstraete (Woluwe Saint Lambert, Belgium), Mariana B. T. Cardoso (Brussels), Hossam Hassan Tantawy (Morpeth, Great Britain), Ernesto Tripodi (Brussels) and Dieter Thomas De Hauw (Boortmeerbeek, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Water-soluble unit dose articles that include a water-soluble fibrous non-woven substrate and a particulate treatment composition, the composition including capsules, where the capsules have a shell...