US Patent Issued to Ecolab USA on July 21 for "Method of inhibiting corrosion of a metal in an industrial water system" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,929, issued on July 21, was assigned to Ecolab USA Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Method of inhibiting corrosion of a metal in an industrial water system" was invented by Bingzhi Chen (Naperville, Ill.), Malgorzata A. Krawczyk (Chicago) and Michael P. Weberski Jr. (Sugar Grove, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a method of inhibiting corrosion of a metal in an industrial water system, the method comprising: (i) treating water of the industrial water system with a corrosion inhibiting-effective amount of a phosphorus-based treatment program comprising a phosphorus-based compound to provide a first treated industrial...