ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,561, issued on May 27, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Water-soluble unit dose article" was invented by Timothy Bullivant (Newcastle upon Tyne, Great Britain), Nicholas Alexander Jesse McGuckin (Newcastle upon Tyne, Great Britain), Helen Amy Lang (Newcastle upon Tyne, Great Britain), Eric San Jose Robles (Newcastle upon Tyne, Great Britain) and Hossam Hassan Tantawy (Morpetht, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A water-soluble unit dose article including a water-soluble fibrous non-woven and a method of using the water-soluble unit dose article."

The patent was filed on June 30, 2022, under Applicat...