ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,284, issued on March 24, was assigned to Ecolab USA Inc. (Saint Paul, Minn.).
"Solid detergent dispenser for a washing machine" was invented by Rahul Bharath Jairam (Minneapolis), Daniel Davis Anderson (Eagan, Minn.), Steven James Lundberg (Minneapolis), Thomas David LaVenture (Lakeland, Minn.), Marvin Harris York (Minneapolis) and Michael Patrick Kremer (Rosemount, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for dispensing a detergent solution from a solid detergent into a dishwasher includes a dispenser that can collect water sprayed into the dishwasher and use the collected water to produce the detergent solution by dissolving ...