Cleaning Wipes with Quaternary Ammonium Compound

US Patent No. 12,152,221 B2 (Nikhil P. Dani); The Clorox Company has patented a pre-loaded wipe. It is made from a substrate comprised of than 90% by weight of pulp fibers and cleaning composition that contains a C₁₂ to C₁₈ quaternary ammonium compound comprising one or more halides of alkyldimethylbenzyl ammonium, alkyldimethylethylbenzyl ammonium, or alkyldimethylammonium; a glycol ether comprising one or more of: diethylene glycol monoethyl ether, diethylene glycol monopropyl ether, diethylene glycol monobutyl ether, dipropylene glycol methyl ether or dipropylene glycol propyl ether; and water.

The pre-loaded wipes release the quaternary ammonium compound to a target surface and exhibit at least a 6-log reduction in a Staphylococcus aureus population within 10 minutes.