ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,562, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Henkel AG & Co. KGaA (Dusseldorf, Germany).
"Detergent presentation form" was invented by Mareile Job (Leverkusen, Germany), Steffen Ristau (Dusseldorf, Germany), Arno Duffels (Dusseldorf, Germany), Marouane Jaafour (Willich, Germany) and Matthias Sunder (Dusseldorf, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detergent supply form includes an outer packaging made of cardboard in the form of a single-piece folding box having a bottom surface and four side surfaces hinged to the bottom surface, a top surface and at least three side surfaces hinged to the top surface, and cuboid detergent shaped bod...