US Patent Issued to The Procter & Gamble on Oct. 6 for "Product comprising poly alpha 1,3-glucan esters" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,753,374, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Product comprising poly alpha 1,3-glucan esters" was invented by Mark Robert Sivik (Mason, Ohio), Kristine Lynn Fliter (Harrison, Ohio), Kathleen Mary Mcdonough (Mason, Ohio), Gang Si (Newcastle upon Tyne, Great Britain), David Good (Loveland, Ohio), Michael McDonnell (Blyth, Great Britain), Zheng-Zheng Huang (Hockessin, Del.) and Helen Lu (Wallingford, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laundry detergent composition includes: (i) detersive surfactant; and (ii) polyalpha-1,3-glucan compounds."

The patent was filed on Dec. 5, 2022, under Application No. 1...