US Patent Issued to The Procter & Gamble on Oct. 27 for "Detergent product" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,434, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Detergent product" was invented by Andrea Branca (Brussels) and Jimmy Schoubben (Grimbergen, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detergent product includes a flexible bag and water-soluble detergent articles. The water-soluble detergent articles are contained inside the flexible bag. The flexible bag includes from about 85 wt % to about 94 wt % of a paper layer; from about 3.0 wt % to about 10.0 wt % of a polyethylene layer having a thickness of from about 6 micro metre to about 20 micro metre; and from about 3.0 wt % to about 10.0 wt % of a reclosea...