US Patent Issued to ECOLAB USA on May 27 for "Use of extended surfactants in process membrane cleaning" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,320, issued on May 27, was assigned to ECOLAB USA INC. (Saint Paul, Minn.).

"Use of extended surfactants in process membrane cleaning" was invented by Paul Frazer Schacht (Saint Paul, Minn.), Caleb Power (Saint Paul, Minn.), Keith G. LaScotte (Saint Paul, Minn.), Elizabeth Irey (Saint Paul, Minn.) and Sukhwan Soontravanich (Saint Paul, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are membrane separation cleaning processes and clean in place compositions for such membranes. The cleaning compositions can remove proteins, fats, and other food, beverage, and brewery based soils and offer an environmentally friendly alternative surfacta...