ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,779, issued on April 21, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Active agent-containing articles" was invented by Mark William Hamersky (Hamilton, Ohio), Mark Robert Sivik (Mason, Ohio), Alessandro Corona (Mason, Ohio), Travis Kyle Hodgdon (Cincinnati), Gregory Charles Gordon (Loveland, Ohio) and Paul Thomas Weisman (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Active agent-containing articles, for example dryer-added articles and/or washing machine-added articles and/or hair care articles, and more particularly to consumable, single use, water-insoluble articles containing one or more active agents and optionally, one...