Patents by Inventor Sally K. Swart
Sally K. Swart has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 8990098Abstract: A validated healthcare facility cleaning and sanitizing system provides a comprehensive and systematic approach to cleaning and sanitizing practices at a hospital or other healthcare facility. The validated hospital cleaning system identifies hospital vectors of contamination; that is, sources through which hospital acquired infections (HAIs) may be spread. The validated system defines a plurality of modules within a healthcare facility, each having an associated cleaning process map designed to meet the particular cleaning and/or sanitizing needs and challenges faced by that module. Various stages of the cleaning process map include validation points, at which certain parameters designed to ensure proper cleaning and/or sanitizing of the module are verified.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2009Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: Ecolab Inc.Inventors: Sally K. Swart, Ryan D. Meek, Kirsten M. Thompson, Kimberly Severin Johnston, Henry L. Carbone, II, Scott P. Lyon, John R. Bucholz
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Publication number: 20090276239Abstract: A validated healthcare facility cleaning and sanitizing system provides a comprehensive and systematic approach to cleaning and sanitizing practices at a hospital or other healthcare facility. The validated hospital cleaning system identifies hospital vectors of contamination; that is, sources through which hospital acquired infections (HAIs) may be spread. The validated system defines a plurality of modules within a healthcare facility, each having an associated cleaning process map designed to meet the particular cleaning and/or sanitizing needs and challenges faced by that module. Various stages of the cleaning process map include validation points, at which certain parameters designed to ensure proper cleaning and/or sanitizing of the module are verified.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2009Publication date: November 5, 2009Applicant: Ecolab Inc.Inventors: Sally K. Swart, Ryan D. Meek, Kirsten M. Thompson, Kimberly Severin Johnston, Henry L. Carbone, II, Scott P. Lyon, John R. Bucholz
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Patent number: 7056536Abstract: A non-corrosive, liquid, aqueous sterilant composition (as a concentrate or ready-to-use solution), which may be provided in two parts which are mixed prior to application, may comprise a peracid (in an equilibrium solution with an underlying carboxylic acid or mixtures of alkyl carboxylic acids and peroxide), inorganic buffering agent, and water. It has been found that the use of this simplified system, even in the absence of additional components which have been thought to be desirable for sterilants used on metal parts (e.g.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2003Date of Patent: June 6, 2006Assignee: Ecolab Inc.Inventors: Francis L. Richter, Duane J. Reinhardt, Sally K. Swart
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Publication number: 20040072714Abstract: The present invention relates to a solid enzyme cleaning composition in which the enzyme is stable in the presence of mixtures of carbonate and bicarbonate at alkaline pH, and methods employing this composition. The enzyme cleaning composition preferably employs weight ratios of carbonate and bicarbonate to stabilize one or more enzymes in a solid, a concentrate, and/or a use composition, and at temperatures higher than ambient.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2003Publication date: April 15, 2004Applicant: Ecolab Inc.Inventors: James J. Tarara, Sally K. Swart, Tareasa Lynn Bradley, Reid Rabon, Denise Chandler
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Publication number: 20040048760Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for cleaning, rinsing, and/or antimicrobial treatment of medical carts, medical cages, and other medical instruments, devices or equipment. The method for cleaning employs a solid alkaline, for example a solid carbonate, cleaning composition for cleaning the medical cart, cage, instrument, device, or equipment. The method for rinsing employs a solid neutral or neutralizing rinse composition for rinsing the medical cart, cage, instrument, device, or equipment. The method for antimicrobial treatment employs a solid, for example a solid quaternary ammonium or solid halogen, antimicrobial composition, for antimicrobial treatment of the medical cart, cage, instrument, device, or equipment.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2003Publication date: March 11, 2004Applicant: Ecolab Inc.Inventors: Reid Rabon, Sally K. Swart, Denise Chandler, Terrence P. Everson
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Patent number: 6638902Abstract: The present invention relates to a solid enzyme cleaning composition in which the enzyme is stable in the presence of mixtures of carbonate and bicarbonate at alkaline pH, and methods employing this composition. The enzyme cleaning composition preferably employs weight ratios of carbonate and bicarbonate to stabilize one or more enzymes in a solid, a concentrate, and/or a use composition, and at temperatures higher than ambient.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2001Date of Patent: October 28, 2003Assignee: Ecolab Inc.Inventors: James J. Tarara, Sally K. Swart, Tareasa Lynn Bradley, Reid Rabon, Denise Chandler
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Patent number: 6632291Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for cleaning, rinsing, and/or antimicrobial treatment of medical carts, medical cages, and other medical instruments, devices or equipment. The method for cleaning employs a solid alkaline, for example a solid carbonate, cleaning composition for cleaning the medical cart, cage, instrument, device, or equipment. The method for rinsing employs a solid neutral or neutralizing rinse composition for rinsing the medical cart, cage, instrument, device, or equipment. The method for antimicrobial treatment employs a solid, for example a solid quaternary ammonium or solid halogen, antimicrobial composition, for antimicrobial treatment of the medical cart, cage, instrument, device, or equipment.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2001Date of Patent: October 14, 2003Assignee: Ecolab Inc.Inventors: Reid Rabon, Sally K. Swart, Denise Chandler, Terrence P. Everson
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Publication number: 20030185899Abstract: A non-corrosive, liquid, aqueous sterilant composition (as a concentrate or ready-to-use solution), which may be provided in two parts which are mixed prior to application, may comprise a peracid (in an equilibrium solution with an underlying carboxylic acid or mixtures of alkyl carboxylic acids and peroxide), inorganic buffering agent, and water. It has been found that the use of this simplified system, even in the absence of additional components which have been thought to be desirable for sterilants used on metal parts (e.g.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2003Publication date: October 2, 2003Applicant: Ecolab Inc.Inventors: Francis L. Richter, Duane J. Reinhardt, Sally K. Swart
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Patent number: 6589565Abstract: A non-corrosive, liquid, aqueous sterilant composition (as a concentrate or ready-to-use solution), which may be provided in two parts which are mixed prior to application, may comprise a peracid (in an equilibrium solution with an underlying carboxylic acid or mixtures of alkyl carboxylic acids and peroxide), inorganic buffering agent, and water. It has been found that the use of this simplified system, even in the absence of additional components which have been thought to be desirable for sterilants used on metal parts (e.g.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 1999Date of Patent: July 8, 2003Assignee: Ecolab Inc.Inventors: Francis L. Richter, Duane J. Reinhardt, Sally K. Swart
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Publication number: 20020177541Abstract: The present invention relates to a solid enzyme cleaning composition in which the enzyme is stable in the presence of mixtures of carbonate and bicarbonate at alkaline pH, and methods employing this composition. The enzyme cleaning composition preferably employs weight ratios of carbonate and bicarbonate to stabilize one or more enzymes in a solid, a concentrate, and/or a use composition, and at temperatures higher than ambient.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2001Publication date: November 28, 2002Applicant: Ecolab Inc.Inventors: James J. Tarara, Sally K. Swart, Tareasa Lynn Bradley, Reid Rabon, Denise Chandler
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Publication number: 20020173437Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for cleaning, rinsing, and/or antimicrobial treatment of medical carts, medical cages, and other medical instruments, devices or equipment. The method for cleaning employs a solid alkaline, for example a solid carbonate, cleaning composition for cleaning the medical cart, cage, instrument, device, or equipment. The method for rinsing employs a solid neutral or neutralizing rinse composition for rinsing the medical cart, cage, instrument, device, or equipment. The method for antimicrobial treatment employs a solid, for example a solid quaternary ammonium or solid halogen, antimicrobial composition, for antimicrobial treatment of the medical cart, cage, instrument, device, or equipment.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2001Publication date: November 21, 2002Inventors: Reid Rabon, Sally K. Swart, Denise Chandler, Terrence P. Everson
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Patent number: 6147120Abstract: A synergistic composition and a synergistic system for use in treating the skin and hair of people and animals comprises separate treatment compositions (solution, dispersions, emulsions, suspensions or other liquid or liquefiable materials). One treatment with a first composition that may comprise at least 0.1% by weight of antimicrobially active aliphatic phenol derivative and treatment with another composition being selected from the group consisting of:a) a solution comprising an antimicrobially active cationic species;b) a comprising antimicrobially active aliphatic phenol derivative, preferably in a different weight percentage of antimicrobially active aliphatic phenol derivative than said one composition, comprising greater than 0.3% antimicrobially active aliphatic phenol derivative;c) a solution comprising an alcohol provides a synergistic antimicrobial action.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 1999Date of Patent: November 14, 2000Assignee: Ecolab Inc.Inventors: Sally K. Swart, John Hilgren, William Feil, Mary Bennett