US Patent Issued to ECOLAB USA on June 30 for "Recycling automotive phosphate rinse water stream" (Illinois, Michigan, New York, Indiana, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,506, issued on June 30, was assigned to ECOLAB USA Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Recycling automotive phosphate rinse water stream" was invented by Daniel M. Williams (Greenwood, Ind.), Tony Veljan Mackovski (Shelby Township, Mich.), Bruce Tait (Libertyville, Ill.), Joseph Peter Miknevich (Coraopolis, Pa.), Alex Michael Bogda (Clifton Park, N.Y.), Aarthi Narayanan (Naperville, Ill.) and William A. Von Drasek (Oak Forest, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to recycling automotive phosphate rinse water. An apparatus and method is disclosed for treating process water containing phosphate. The apparatus may inc...