ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,843, issued on July 29, was assigned to ECOLAB USA INC. (Saint Paul, Minn.).
"Controlling water levels and detergent concentration in a wash cycle" was invented by Kaustav Ghosh (Saint Paul, Minn.), Lee Monsrud (Saint Paul, Minn.), Loan Paulson-Vu (Saint Paul, Minn.) and Barry R. Taylor (Saint Paul, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses and methods for controlling the various phases and in particular in a wash cycle of a wash machine are provided. In particular, the present application relates to controlling the water levels and detergent composition concentrations in order to reduce the amount of water and compos...