US Patent Issued to ECOLAB USA on Aug. 4 for "One-pot homogeneous process for the large scale manufacture of 2-substituted benzimidazoles" (Illinois, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,267, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to ECOLAB USA Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"One-pot homogeneous process for the large scale manufacture of 2-substituted benzimidazoles" was invented by Pradeep Cheruku (Bolingbrook, Ill.), Patricia Gillenwater (Glen Ellyn, Ill.), Nicolas Leflemme (Buffalo Grove, Ill.), Alexander Mantis (Brookfield, Ill.), James Joseph Michels (Sturgis, Mich.) and Suresh R. Sriram (Aurora, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "2-substituted benzimidazoles and methods of preparing the same are disclosed. The compositions may include a compound or salt thereof, a strong acid, and a carboxylic acid. The compositions may exclu...