US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on Oct. 21 for "Phosphate-containing copolymers for virulence suppression" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,484, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Phosphate-containing copolymers for virulence suppression" was invented by Carl A. Laskowski (Minneapolis), Timothy M. Gillard (St. Paul, Minn.), Ranjani V. Parthasarathy (Woodbury, Minn.), Hannah C. Cohen (St. Paul, Minn.) and Max A. Kruziki (New Brighton, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Phosphate-containing copolymers, medical compositions containing the phosphate-containing copolymers, and methods of suppressing microbial virulence are provided. By suppressing virulence, administration and/or application of the medical compositions can be...