US Patent Issued to ECOLAB USA on July 29 for "Booster composition for cleaning fermentation equipment and methods of use" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,641, issued on July 29, was assigned to ECOLAB USA INC. (Saint Paul, Minn.).

"Booster composition for cleaning fermentation equipment and methods of use" was invented by Jennifer Stokes (Rosemount, Minn.), Chris Nagel (St. Paul, Minn.), Claire Notermann (Sunfish Lake, Minn.) and Sukhwan Soontravanich (Inver Grove Heights, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain booster compositions and methods of using the booster compositions to clean fermentation equipment are disclosed. The booster compositions are useful in environments with variable, changing, unstable, or limited alkalinity sources found within fermentation equipment."

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