US Patent Issued to ECOLAB USA on Aug. 12 for "Peroxyformic acid compositions for membrane filtration cleaning in energy services" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,955, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to ECOLAB USA INC. (Saint Paul, Minn.).

"Peroxyformic acid compositions for membrane filtration cleaning in energy services" was invented by Junzhong Li (Saint Paul, Minn.), Cynthia Bunders (Saint Paul, Minn.), Richard Staub (Saint Paul, Minn.), Paul Frazer Schacht (Saint Paul, Minn.), Caleb Power (Saint Paul, Minn.), Ramakrishnan Balasubramanian (Saint Paul, Minn.), Robert J. Ryther (Saint Paul, Minn.) and Catherine Hanson (Saint Paul, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Peroxyformic acid compositions for treatment and removal of biofilm growth and mineral deposits on membranes for energy servic...