ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,893, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Ecolab USA Inc. (Saint Paul, Minn.).

"Dispensing system for transferring chemical into a strainer basket assembly" was invented by Kenneth Thomas Dobizl (Mounds View, Minn.), Emily Gaynor (Oak Ridge, N.C.), Tracy Graham (Cleveland, N.C.), Amber Langley (Cedar Grove, N.C.), Gina McDowell (Greensboro, N.C.), Elaine Money (Oak Ridge, N.C.), Shravan Prasad (Greensboro, N.C.), Benjamin Schaefer (Roseville, Minn.), Daniel Wald (Burnsville, Minn.), Daniel Anderson (Eagan, Minn.) and Daniel August Gentilini (Lino Lakes, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A strainer basket system may include a reservo...