US Patent Issued to ECOLAB USA on Jan. 27 for "Cleaning compositions and methods of use" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,690, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to ECOLAB USA INC. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Cleaning compositions and methods of use" was invented by Mark Levitt (West St. Paul, Minn.), Meghan Gadbois (Hugo, Minn.) and Altony Miralles (Woodbury, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composition comprises from 0.1 to 30 wt-% of one or more amino acids, 0.1 to 30 wt-% of one or more surfactants, and optionally one or more hydrotropes. The amino acids may be selected from arginine ("ARG"), lysine ("LYS"), histidine ("HIS"), glycine ("GLY"), or combinations thereof. The composition can be formulated as a cleaning composition, such as a hard surface cle...