US Patent Issued to ECOLAB USA on June 24 for "Concentrated 2 in 1 dishmachine detergent and rinse aid" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,414, issued on June 24, was assigned to ECOLAB USA INC. (Saint Paul, Minn.).

"Concentrated 2 in 1 dishmachine detergent and rinse aid" was invented by Steven Lundberg (Saint Paul, Minn.) and Monique Roerdink Lander (Saint Paul, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Consumer and industrial 2-in-1 cleaning compositions providing both detergency and rinseability in a single cleaning composition are disclosed. Alkaline-based cleaning compositions containing a surface modification polymer and an alcohol alkoxylate nonionic surfactant, and methods of using the same provide user-friendly, solid, detergent compositions without the need for us...