ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,416, issued on June 24, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Fabric and home care products with cold water protease" was invented by Philip Frank Souter (Northumberland, Great Britain), Glenn Steven Ward (Newcastle-upon Tyne, Great Britain), Viktor Yuryevich Alekseyev (Palo Alto, Calif.), Joshua Roy Basler (Palo Alto, Calif.), Luis Gustavo Cascao-Pereira (Redwood City, Calif.), David A Estell (San Francisco), Ayrookaran J Poulose (Belmont, Calif.), James T Kellis Jr. (Woodside, Calif.), Alexander Pisarchik (Belmont, Calif.) and Daniel Torres-Pazmino (KA Leiden, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invent...