US Patent Issued to Ecolab USA on April 14 for "Dish rack and ware washing system for reusable plastic wares" (North Carolina, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,282, issued on April 14, was assigned to Ecolab USA Inc. (Saint Paul, Minn.).

"Dish rack and ware washing system for reusable plastic wares" was invented by Jessica Rose Carlson (Jamestown, N.C.), Jordan Lundberg (Greensboro, N.C.), Stan James Jones (Roscoe, N.C.) and Michael Keith Bost (Island Lake, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dish rack for cleaning reusable plastic dishware can include a bottom support wall, a sidewall defining an outer frame, and a cover positionable over the bottom support wall. In some examples, the dish rack includes spaced-apart prongs extending upwardly from the bottom support wall. In use, an oper...