ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,722, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Method of manufacturing a detergent water-soluble pouch" was invented by Miguel Brandt Sanz (Etterbeek, Belgium), Kristof Bert Donne (Antwerp, Belgium), Frank Emile Louis Triest (Hof ten Bergestraat, Belgium) and Reinhard Waerlop (Tremelo, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A continuous method of manufacturing a detergent water-soluble pouch includes providing a first water-soluble film moving in a first direction, and forming a cavity in the first water-soluble film; providing a feed of first detergent particles to a rotating discretizing element com...