US Patent Issued to ECOLAB USA on Oct. 14 for "Generation of peroxyformic acid through polyhydric alcohol formate" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,916, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to ECOLAB USA INC. (Saint Paul, Minn.).

"Generation of peroxyformic acid through polyhydric alcohol formate" was invented by Junzhong Li (Saint Paul, Minn.), Allison Brewster (Saint Paul, Minn.), Richard Staub (Saint Paul, Minn.), Steven J. Lange (Saint Paul, Minn.), Taz Cheritu (Saint Paul, Minn.), Jonathan P. Fast (Saint Paul, Minn.) and Catherine Hanson (Saint Paul, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates generally to peroxyformic acid forming compositions, methods for forming peroxyformic acid, preferably in situ, using the peroxyformic acid forming compositions. The...