ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,894, issued on June 3, was assigned to MITSUBISHI GAS CHEMICAL COMPANY INC. (Chiyoda-ku, Japan).

"Composition for sterilization and cleaning, method for producing same, and sterilization and cleaning method employing same" was invented by Takashi Sugimoto (Katsushika-ku, Japan), Syugo Sato (Katsushika-ku, Japan), Susumu Innan (Katsushika-ku, Japan) and Ken-ichi Kimizuka (Chiyoda-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composition for sterilization and cleaning which comprises 0.001-30 mass % peracetic acid, 0.001-30 mass % hydrogen peroxide, 1-70 mass % acetic acid and/or salt thereof, 0.001-5 mass % polyoxyethylene lauryl ether ac...