US Patent Issued to Henkel on Sept. 1 for "Detergent supply form" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,867, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Henkel AG & Co. KGaA (Duseldorf, Germany).

"Detergent supply form" was invented by Marouane Jaafour (Willich, Germany), Matthias Sunder (Dusseldorf, Germany), Mareile Job (Leverkusen, Germany), Arno Duffels (Dusseldorf, Germany) and Steffen Ristau (Dusseldorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detergent supply form includes an outer packaging in the form of a folding box having a bottom surface, a top surface and side walls connecting the bottom surface and the top surface, and cuboid detergent shaped bodies having a lower face, an upper face and a lateral face connecting the lower face ...