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US 12,545,859 B2Granted
Fabric treatment using bacterial spores
AssigneeThe Procter & Gamble Company
InventorsNeil Joseph Lant, Samuel Kimani Njoroge, Todd Michael Wernicke, Julie Marie Porter
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Abstract
A method of treating a fabric in a washing machine using a cold and/or a quick program, including contacting the fabric with a treatment liquor comprising at least 1×102 CFU/l of liquor, of bacterial spores wherein the cold program includes a wash having a bath temperature below 30° C. and/or the quick program lasts less than 40 minutes.
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A method of treating a fabric in a washing machine, the method comprising contacting the fabric with a treatment liquor in the washing machine using a cold program, wherein:
- the treatment liquor comprises from about 1×102 to about 1×108 CFU/l of treatment liquor of bacterial spores;
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- the cold program comprises a wash having a bath temperature below 22° C.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.