ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,060, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Ecolab USA Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Development and implementation of analyzer based control system and algorithm" was invented by Jin Wang (Houston), Nigel P. Hilton (Houston), Glenn L. Scattergood (Sugar Land, Texas) and Sam Ferguson (Sugar Land, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of correcting measurements of a chemical sensor used in an industrial facility. The method involves correcting for errors known to occur in the steady state and the dynamic state for specifically recognized situations. This method allows for correcting errors that occur due to deadtime, false zero measure...