ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,161, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to LaundrySucks.io Inc. (Sandy Springs, Ga.).

"Cleaning fluid composition and method for autonomously cleaning a garment in a kiosk" was invented by Felicity Alban (Roswell, Ga.), Thibault Corens (Roswell, Ga.), Nishant Jain (Roswell, Ga.) and Lafe Zabowski (Marietta, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One variation of a method includes: receiving a garment within a chamber of a kiosk; accessing a garment type and a fabric type of the garment; allocating a volume of a cleaning fluid for application on a target region of the garment, predicted to contain odorous molecules based on the garment type,...