US Patent Issued to Henkel on March 24 for "Gel-like shaped body for fragrancing textiles during the washing process" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,080, issued on March 24, was assigned to Henkel AG & Co. KGaA (Duesseldorf, Germany).

"Gel-like shaped body for fragrancing textiles during the washing process" was invented by Filiz Yapici (Duesseldorf, Germany), Peter Schmiedel (Duesseldorf, Germany), Mireia Subinya (Massenbachhausen, Germany) and Ines Baranski (Cologne, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is in the field of washing and cleaning agents and relates to a fragranced shaped body, including a composition obtained by bringing the following components into contact: (a) at least one gelling agent having a molar mass of greater than2000 g/mol and (...