ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,455, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Church & Dwight Co. Inc. (Princeton, N.J.).

"Laundry detergent composition" was invented by Leilani D. Pechera (Kendall Park, N.J.), Archana Gupta (Belle Mead, N.J.), Steven T. Adamy (Lawrenceville, N.J.) and Vaidehi Shah (Manalapan, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An article is provided including an aqueous liquid detergent, and a package for the aqueous liquid detergent which is in direct contact with the aqueous liquid detergent, wherein the package is formed from a water-soluble, film-forming material. The aqueous liquid detergent includes at least about 40% by weight of water based on th...