US Patent Issued to The Procter & Gamble on Feb. 10 for "Fabric treatment using bacterial spores" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,859, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Fabric treatment using bacterial spores" was invented by Neil Joseph Lant (Newcastle Upon Tyne, Great Britain), Samuel Kimani Njoroge (Montgomery, Ohio), Todd Michael Wernicke (Cincinnati) and Julie Marie Porter (Amelia, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of treating a fabric in a washing machine using a cold and/or a quick program, including contacting the fabric with a treatment liquor comprising at least 1x102 CFU/l of liquor, of bacterial spores wherein the cold program includes a wash having a bath temperature below 30deg C. and/or the quic...