US Patent Issued to The Procter & Gamble on Sept. 15 for "Method of making detergent granules comprising an alkyl sulfate, amphoteric surfactant, and inorganic salt mixture" (British, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,661, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Method of making detergent granules comprising an alkyl sulfate, amphoteric surfactant, and inorganic salt mixture" was invented by Dan Xu (Beijing), Yue Zhao (Beijing), Xiaobin Chu (Beijing), Nicholas Anthony Wilson (Morpeth, Great Britain) and Nicholas Alexander Jesse Mcguckin (Newcastle upon Tyne, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of making detergent granules, wherein the detergent granules comprise: (i) an alkyl sulfate (AS) having a branched or linear unalkoxylated alkyl group comprising from 6 to 18 carbon atoms; (ii) an amphot...