US Patent Issued to ECOLAB USA on July 8 for "Neutralizing instrument reprocessing" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,775, issued on July 8, was assigned to ECOLAB USA INC. (Saint Paul, Minn.).

"Neutralizing instrument reprocessing" was invented by Wendy Lo (Saint Paul, Minn.), Michael S. Rischmiller (Saint Paul, Minn.) and Erik C. Olson (Saint Paul, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A neutralizer, destainer/descaling, and passivating composition and methods of using the same on metal surfaces are disclosed. The compositions are particularly well suited for the treatment of health care surfaces and other hard surfaces in need of treatment. In particular, the neutralizer, destainer/descaling, and passivating composition is an acid-based composition...