US Patent Issued to The Procter & Gamble on Jan. 20 for "Particulate laundry softening wash additive" (Ohio, Kentucky Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,012, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Particulate laundry softening wash additive" was invented by Jaden Scott Zerhusen (Florence, Ky.), Rajan Keshav Panandiker (West Chester, Ohio), Michael Paul Fontaine (Springboro, Ohio), Lenae Virginia Johnson (Cincinnati) and Alessandro Corona III (Wyoming, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composition including a plurality of particles, the plurality of particles including: about 25% to about 94% by weight a water soluble carrier; about 5% to about 45% by weight a quaternary ammonium compound; and about 0.5% to about 10% by weight a cationic polymer...