ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,131, issued on April 14, was assigned to KAO Corp. (Tokyo).
"Disinfectant composition" was invented by Hiroko Kawaguchi (Wakayama, Japan), Yoshiko Kiyohara (Tochigi, Japan) and Takanori Saito (Wakayama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a disinfectant composition exhibiting high disinfecting ability even if containing no disinfecting base agents that have conventionally been widely used or containing the disinfecting base agents in a reduced amount. The disinfectant composition contains an internal olefin sulfonate with 8 or more and 24 or less carbons; one or more organic acids selected from monocarboxylic acids, hyd...