US Patent Issued to ECOLAB USA on July 1 for "Antifoulant compositions for high-severity processing of vinylic monomer streams" (American, Portuguese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,581, issued on July 1, was assigned to ECOLAB USA Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Antifoulant compositions for high-severity processing of vinylic monomer streams" was invented by Jonathan Masere (Richmond, Texas), Zhenxing Xi (Katy, Texas), Pedro Carvalho Campos (Perre, Portugal), David Dixon (Baton Rouge, La.), Gregory Appel Melancon Jr. (Baton Rouge, La.) and Ramon Colorado Jr. (Stafford, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Inhibitor compositions for abating undesirable polymerization during processing of hydrocarbon stream laden with reactive vinylic monomers are provided. The polymerization inhibitor compositions include at least a fir...