US Patent Issued to The Procter & Gamble on July 1 for "Capsules" (Belgian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,696, issued on July 1, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Capsules" was invented by Mariana B T Cardoso (Ixelles, Belgium), Andre Martim Barros (Woluwe Saint Etienne, Belgium), Peter De Nies (Antwerp, Belgium), Pierre Daniel Verstraete (Lambert, Belgium), Valerie Wong (Mason, Ohio), Steven Daryl Smith (Fairfield, Ohio) and Johan Smets (Lubbeek, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A population of capsules, the capsules can include a core including a benefit agent and a shell surrounding the core, wherein the shell can include a first shell component."

The patent was filed on April 25, 2022, under Application No...