US Patent Issued to Ecolab USA on March 18 for "Reducing illnesses and infections caused by ineffective cleaning by tracking and controlling cleaning efficacy" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,759, issued on March 18, was assigned to Ecolab USA Inc. (Saint Paul, Minn.).

"Reducing illnesses and infections caused by ineffective cleaning by tracking and controlling cleaning efficacy" was invented by Albert Goldfain (Chanhassen, Minn.), Gregory Bryant Hayes (Apple Valley, Minn.), Emily Gaynor (Oak Ridge, Minn.), Pedro Van Hoecke (Woodbury, Minn.), Ilona Furman Weart (Farmington, Minn.) and Joseph Wegner (Falcon Heights, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wearable computing device may be used to track the efficacy of one or more cleaning actions performed. The device can include one or more sensors that detect and measure ...