ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,044, issued on March 4, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).
"Multi-layer dryer sheet folded such that indented embossments face towards one another" was invented by Kristin Rhedrick Williams (West Chester, Ohio), Amaranta Ramirez-Almaraz (Cincinnati) and Howard Jay Kalnitz (Cincinnati).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dryer sheet including: a nonwoven fibrous first layer and a nonwoven fibrous second layer joined to the first layer. The first layer has a first layer interior surface. The first layer has a first layer exterior surface area. The second layer has a second layer exterior surface area. The dryer sheet in...