US Patent Issued to ECOLAB USA on Jan. 27 for "Reduced misting peracid based cleaning, sanitizing, and disinfecting compositions via the use of high molecular weight polymers" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,885, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to ECOLAB USA INC. (Saint Paul, Minn.).

"Reduced misting peracid based cleaning, sanitizing, and disinfecting compositions via the use of high molecular weight polymers" was invented by Gang Pu (Saint Paul, Minn.), Victor Fuk-Pong Man (Saint Paul, Minn.) and Michael William Willer (Saint Paul, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aqueous compositions for cleaning, sanitizing, and/or disinfecting using peroxycarboxylic acid compositions in combination with a high molecular weight polymer are provided. The compositions have a modified droplet size of the peroxycarboxylic acid composition when spraye...