ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,058, issued on July 14, was assigned to MONOSOL LLC (Merrillville, Ind.).

"Water-soluble unit dose article including water-soluble core construction" was invented by Jonathon D. Knight (Merrillville, Ind.), Victoria Bridewell (Merrillville, Ind.), Ramya Ramaswamy (Merrillville, Ind.) and Ryan Slopek (Merrillville, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A single unit dose article includes a water-soluble core substrate comprising a water-soluble resin. The water-soluble core substrate contains a carrier solvent with an active cleaning formulation, wherein upon contact of the carrier solvent with the water-soluble core substrate, the wate...