ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,673, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Henkel AG & Co. KGaA (Dusseldorf, Germany).

"Multi-layer laundry sheet" was invented by Casey Elphege Camire (Trumbull, Conn.), Brian Alan Warren (Bowling Green, Ky.), Janet Coope-Epstein (Trumbull, Conn.), Andrew Neal Bernard (Trumbull, Conn.) and Maxime Pelletier (Rindge, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides water soluble laundry detergent products comprising one or more non-fibrous sheets and at least one solid layer, wherein the at least one solid layer comprises a gel and a solidifying agent and is coated on one or more sides of the one or more non-fibrous sh...