ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,658, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Cleaning composition comprising an engineered fatty acid alpha-dioxygenase" was invented by Hilda Namanja-Magliano (Loveland, Ohio), Jean Luc Philippe Bettiol (Etterbeek Brussels, Belgium), Spencer Christopher Rupard (Birmingham, Ala.), Juan Esteban Velasquez (Jersey City, N.J.), Denis Alfred Gonzales (Brussels), Emma Louise Barnard (Tyronne, Great Britain), Derek John Quinn (Newtownards, Great Britain), Thomas Shaw Moody (Ballymena, Great Britain) and Daniel Fernando Andrade Ribeiro Dourado (Vila do Conde, Portugal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Cleani...