US 12,250,921 B2
Animal litters exhibiting enhanced odor reduction properties, and related methods
Steven T. Adamy, Lawrenceville, NJ (US)
Assigned to Church & Dwight Co., Inc., Princeton, NJ (US)
Appl. No. 17/278,503
Filed by Church & Dwight Co., Inc., Princeton, NJ (US)
PCT Filed Sep. 24, 2019, PCT No. PCT/IB2019/058107
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Mar. 22, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/065540, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 2, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/736,365, filed on Sep. 25, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0030824 A1, Feb. 3, 2022
Int. Cl. A01K 1/015 (2006.01); A61L 9/014 (2006.01); B01D 53/04 (2006.01); B82Y 99/00 (2011.01)
CPC A01K 1/0154 (2013.01) [A61L 9/014 (2013.01); B01D 53/04 (2013.01); B01D 2253/108 (2013.01); B01D 2257/406 (2013.01); B82Y 99/00 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An animal litter composition comprising:
a zeolite-based liquid adsorbing material; and
a nanosilicate odor reducing agent that reduces an odor of litter waste, the animal litter composition having a total nanosilicate odor reducing agent content of about 0.5% by weight to about 13% by weight based on the total weight of the animal litter composition;
wherein the nanosilicate odor reducing agent is cationic.