US Patent Issued to Ecolab USA on July 29 for "High alkaline warewash detergent with enhanced scale control and soil dispersion" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,640, issued on July 29, was assigned to Ecolab USA Inc. (Saint Paul, Minn.).

"High alkaline warewash detergent with enhanced scale control and soil dispersion" was invented by David Dotzauer (Saint Paul, Minn.), Timothy Meier (Saint Paul, Minn.), Carter M. Silvernail (Saint Paul, Minn.) and John Mansergh (Saint Paul, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Detergent compositions and methods of preparing and using the detergent compositions are disclosed. The detergent compositions comprise a polymer system comprising at least one polycarboxylic acid polymer, copolymer, or terpolymer, an alkalinity source comprising an alkali metal carbo...