	US 12,441,961 B2
	Household cleaning composition
Pieter Jan Maria Saveyn, Heusden (BE); Mark Robert Sivik, Mason, OH (US); and Evelyne Johanna Lutgarde Van Hecke, Bachte-Maria-Leerne (BE)
Assigned to The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH (US)
Filed by The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH (US)
Filed on Jun. 21, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/338,385.
Claims priority of application No. 22180286 (EP), filed on Jun. 22, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0416647 A1, Dec. 28, 2023
Int. Cl. C11D 3/00 (2006.01); C11D 1/12 (2006.01); C11D 1/88 (2006.01); C11D 3/37 (2006.01)

CPC C11D 3/3753 (2013.01) [C11D 1/12 (2013.01); C11D 1/88 (2013.01)]

20 Claims

1. A household cleaning composition comprising:

a. from about 1.0% to about 50% by weight of the total composition of a surfactant system; and

b. a polyvinyl alcohol copolymer, wherein the polyvinyl alcohol copolymer comprises vinyl alcohol monomers, vinyl acetate monomers, and alkyl-1-ene monomers, wherein the alkyl-1-ene monomers have an alkyl chain comprising on average from 8 to 20 carbon atoms,

wherein the polyvinyl alcohol copolymer has:

i. an average degree of hydrolysis (dH) of from about 30% to about 80%,

ii. a weight average degree of polymerisation (dP) of from about 200 to about 800, and

iii. an average degree of alkyl-1-ene monomer molar substitution (dS) of from about 0.25% to about 4.0%.