US Patent Issued to ECOLAB USA on Nov. 11 for "Pressed, self-solidifying, solid cleaning compositions and methods of making them" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,020, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to ECOLAB USA INC. (Saint Paul, Minn.).

"Pressed, self-solidifying, solid cleaning compositions and methods of making them" was invented by Roger L. Stolte (Saint Paul, Minn.), Michael Peter Dziuk (Saint Paul, Minn.), Melissa C. Meinke (Saint Paul, Minn.) and Matthew C. Porter (Saint Paul, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method of making a solid cleaning composition. The method can include pressing and/or vibrating a flowable solid of a self-solidifying cleaning composition. For a self-solidifying cleaning composition, pressing and/or vibrating a flowable so...