US Patent Issued to The Procter & Gamble on March 25 for "Cleaning composition comprising bacterial spores" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,543, issued on March 25, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Cleaning composition comprising bacterial spores" was invented by Neil Joseph Lant (Newcastle, Great Britain) and Katherine Esther Latimer (Newcastle, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cleaning composition including from about 5% to about 25% by weight of the composition of a hydrogen peroxide source; from 1% to about 10% by weight of the composition of a bleach activator; from about 1x102 to about 1x1011 CFU/g of bacterial spores; and wherein the composition has a pH of from 9.5 to 11.5 as measured in 1% weight/volume aqueous solution in d...