US Patent Issued to ECOLAB USA on June 24 for "Methods of cleaning and soil release of highly oil absorbing substrates employing optimized extended chain nonionic surfactants" (Minnesota, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,413, issued on June 24, was assigned to ECOLAB USA INC. (Saint Paul, Minn.).

"Methods of cleaning and soil release of highly oil absorbing substrates employing optimized extended chain nonionic surfactants" was invented by Victor Fuk-Pong Man (Saint Paul, Minn.), Derrick Anderson (Saint Paul, Minn.), Gang Pu (Saint Paul, Minn.), Jimmy Stokes (Duncan, S.C.) and Kaustav Ghosh (Saint Paul, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are detergent compositions containing extended chain surfactants that form microemulsions with and can remove greasy and oily stains. In certain embodiments the extended nonionic surfactant include...