ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,923, issued on April 14, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).
"Laundry care or dish care composition comprising a poly alpha-1,6-glucan derivative" was invented by Mark Robert Sivik (Mason, Ohio), Kristine Lynn Fliter (Harrison, Ohio), Neil Thomas Fairweather (Liberty Township, Ohio), Gang Si (Newcastle upon Tyne, Great Britain), David Good (Loveland, Ohio), Helen Lu (Wallingford, Pa.) and Weiming Qiu (Wilmington, Del.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laundry care or dish care composition can include a poly alpha-1,6-glucan derivative, wherein the poly alpha-1,6-glucan derivative includes: (i) a poly alpha-1,6-gluc...