US Patent Issued to Ecolab USA on Nov. 11 for "Monitoring and control of thermal sanitization in automated cleaning machines" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,190, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Ecolab USA Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Monitoring and control of thermal sanitization in automated cleaning machines" was invented by Elizabeth Minhee Han (St. Paul, Minn.), Conor Sylvester Smith (Saint Louis Park, Minn.), Paul R. Kraus (Apple Valley, Minn.), Paul Dominic Christian (Apple Valley, Minn.) and Rachel Marie McGinness (Rosemount, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and/or methods for the monitoring and/or control of thermal sanitization in automated cleaning machines are described. A cleaning machine controller may predict a number of heat unit equivalents that will be deliver...