ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,652, issued on June 23, was assigned to Henkel AG & Co. KGaA (Dusseldorf, Germany).
"Washing agent portion unit" was invented by Mareile Job (Leverkusen, Germany), Frank Meier (Duesseldorf, Germany), Matthias Sunder (Duesseldorf, Germany), David Matulla (Hilden, Germany) and Rainer Sorg (Kempen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A washing agent portion unit includes a solid washing agent or cleaning agent, and a water-soluble wrapping that completely encloses the solid washing agent or cleaning agent, wherein the water-soluble wrapping consists at least in part of a water-soluble nonwoven. The present invention further relates t...