US Patent Issued to Ecolab USA on Dec. 23 for "Method for monitoring and control of a wastewater process stream" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,375, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Ecolab USA Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Method for monitoring and control of a wastewater process stream" was invented by Michael J. Murcia (DeKalb, Ill.) and Prasad Y. Duggirala (Naperville, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention is directed towards methods, compositions, and apparatus for accurately detecting the presence and amounts of contaminants in wastewater. The method comprises the steps of adding to a volume of wastewater at least one tracer molecule, observing the tracer for indications of particular contaminants, conducting at least one second form of contamination detection,...