US Patent Issued to Ecolab USA on Nov. 4 for "Sugar/gluconoamide alkoxylate compositions and uses thereof" (Illinois, Minnesota, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,155, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Ecolab USA Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Sugar/gluconoamide alkoxylate compositions and uses thereof" was invented by Ashish Dhawan (Aurora, Ill.), Keith Allen Monk (New Braunfels, Texas), Carter Martin Silvernail (Lakeville, Minn.) and Pradeep Cheruku (Bolingbrook, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions comprising a sugar alkoxylate and processes for preparing said compositions are provided. The compositions can be used as a bio-film inhibitor, rheology modifier, emulsion breaker, and/or emulsion inverter. Additionally, the compositions can be used in methods of breaking and/or inverting an...