ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,743, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to CARL FREUDENBERG KG (Weinheim, Germany).

"Method for electronically documenting a cleaning process" was invented by Pavel Fomin (Moscow), Manfred Zielbauer (Hirschberg, Germany), Mike Kosub (Bruchsal, Germany), Theofanis Lambrou (Darmstadt, Germany) and Andreas Eisenhut (Pullach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for electronically documenting a cleaning process, in which data of the cleaning process is captured and written to an electronic database, the method including capturing preparation data in connection with preparing for the cleaning process, capturing performance data in...