US Patent Issued to B/E AEROSPACE on June 10 for "Detecting antimicrobial surfaces" (Washington, California, North Carolina, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,443, issued on June 10, was assigned to B/E AEROSPACE INC. (Winston Salem, N.C.).

"Detecting antimicrobial surfaces" was invented by Steven Poteet (Ashland, Mass.), Katherine Urena Pimentel (Winston-Salem, N.C.), Thomas Martz (Winston-Salem, N.C.), Irene Rexwinkle (Mill Creek, Wash.), Vijay V. Pujar (Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.) and David Charles McConnell (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes depositing an antimicrobial material onto a surface of a substrate. The method includes binding a photochromic material to the antimicrobial material. Depositing the antimicrobial material and binding the photochromi...