ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,011, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Solid free-flowing particulate laundry detergent composition" was invented by Alan Thomas Brooker (Newcastle upon Tyne, Great Britain), Linsey Sarah Fuller (Newcastle upon Tyne, Great Britain) and Robert William John Sterry (Newcastle upon Tyne, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solid free-flowing particulate laundry detergent composition, wherein the composition including a detersive surfactant and an iron-based bleach catalyst, the composition being substantially free of a source of hydrogen peroxide, and the composition having an equilibri...