US Patent Issued to Ecolab USA on May 12 for "System and technique for controlling cleaning behavior and managing prohibited actions interfering with cleanliness in a cleanroom environment" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,581, issued on May 12, was assigned to Ecolab USA Inc. (Saint Paul, Minn.).

"System and technique for controlling cleaning behavior and managing prohibited actions interfering with cleanliness in a cleanroom environment" was invented by Grant Daniel Lindh (Woodbury, Minn.), Albert Goldfain (Chanhassen, Minn.), Janice Alina Frias (New Brighton, Minn.), Helen Gates (Morecambe, Great Britain), Alex Robert Pederson (Minneapolis) and Christopher Moen Flynn (Saint Paul, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure is directed to a system for detecting when an individual performs a prohibited action during a cleaning event. A wearabl...