US Patent Issued to Microban Products on Nov. 3 for "Compositions and methods for the reduction of environmental odors on and within a textile material" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,427, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Microban Products Co. (Huntersville, N.C.).

"Compositions and methods for the reduction of environmental odors on and within a textile material" was invented by Ryan Scott (Charlotte, N.C.), Hannah Cooper (Charlotte, N.C.) and James Clayton (Denver, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A textile treatment composition for reducing environmental odors on textile material, a treated article having the textile treatment composition applied thereon, and a method of reducing environmental odors on a textile material is provided. The textile treatment composition includes a ricinoleate salt at effective ...