ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,576, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Conopco Inc. (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.).
"Hard surface cleaning composition" was invented by Maheshwara Shiva Naik (Bangalore, India) and Jiji Paul Kottukapally (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to liquid aqueous detergent compositions comprising a surfactant system comprising a primary surfactant being anionic surfactant and a secondary surfactant being amphoteric surfactant whilst the surfactant system is free of alkylbenzene sulphonates and derivatives thereof. The invention further relates to a method of cleaning a stainless-steel hard surface usin...