US Patent Issued to ECOLAB USA on April 14 for "Reducing agent as corrosion inhibitor for machine warewash" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,922, issued on April 14, was assigned to ECOLAB USA INC. (Saint Paul, Minn.).

"Reducing agent as corrosion inhibitor for machine warewash" was invented by Steven Lundberg (Saint Paul, Minn.), Andrew M. Jensen (Saint Paul, Minn.), John Mansergh (Saint Paul, Minn.), Carter M. Silvernail (Saint Paul, Minn.), Erik C. Olson (Saint Paul, Minn.), Derrick Anderson (Saint Paul, Minn.) and Mara Carver (Saint Paul, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Warewash detergent compositions with reducing agents to overcome corrosion challenges in stainless steel dish machines subject to conditions from chlorine sanitizing rinse steps (or other oxidizi...