	US 12,344,819 B2
	Liquid fabric softening composition
Courtney Snow, Blackwood, NJ (US)
Assigned to Church & Dwight Co., Inc., Princeton, NJ (US)
Appl. No. 17/761,474
Filed by Church & Dwight Co., Inc., Princeton, NJ (US)
PCT Filed Sep. 25, 2020, PCT No. PCT/IB2020/059007 § 371(c)(1), (2) Date Mar. 17, 2022, PCT Pub. No. WO2021/059236, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 1, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/907,187, filed on Sep. 27, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0348845 A1, Nov. 3, 2022
Int. Cl. C11D 3/00 (2006.01); C11D 3/30 (2006.01); C11D 3/37 (2006.01); C11D 11/00 (2006.01)

CPC C11D 3/0015 (2013.01) [C11D 3/30 (2013.01); C11D 3/3723 (2013.01); C11D 3/3773 (2013.01); C11D 2111/12 (2024.01)]

14 Claims

1. An in-rinse liquid fabric softening composition comprising:

a polymeric quaternary ammonium salt effective as a conditioning agent in an amount of about 0.4% to about 1.2% by weight based on the total weight of the composition, the polymeric quaternary ammonium salt being a polyquaternium material;

water in an amount of 96% to 99.5% by weight based on the total weight of the composition; and

an anti-static agent in an amount of about 0.6% to about 3% by weight based on the total weight of the composition, the anti-static agent including at least a non-polymeric quaternary ammonium salt;

wherein the composition excludes ester quaternary compounds.