US Patent Issued to ECOLAB USA on July 22 for "Use of cationic sugar-based compounds for microbial fouling control in a water system" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,608, issued on July 22, was assigned to ECOLAB USA INC. (Saint Paul, Minn.).

"Use of cationic sugar-based compounds for microbial fouling control in a water system" was invented by Ashish Dhawan (Saint Paul, Minn.), Kun Xiong (Saint Paul, Minn.) and Carter M. Silvernail (Saint Paul, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are fouling control compositions including cationic alkyl polyglycosides to reduce microbial and/biofilm growth in a water system. The described compositions and methods of using the same are found to be more effective than those methods or compositions including commonly used single quaternary compoun...