US Patent Issued to B/E Aerospace on June 17 for "Antimicrobial surface coating formation, detection, quantification and reactivation systems and methods" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,180, issued on June 17, was assigned to B/E Aerospace Inc. (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

"Antimicrobial surface coating formation, detection, quantification and reactivation systems and methods" was invented by Steven Poteet (Ashland, Mass.), Thomas Martz (Winston-Salem, N.C.), Bradford D'Alessio (Winston-Salem, N.C.), David C. McConnell (N. Ireland, Great Britain), Vijay V. Pujar (Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.), Katherine Urena Pimentel (Manchester, Conn.) and Irene Rexwinkle (Mill Creek, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods for detecting an antimicrobial surface coating on a substrate including the steps of applying an ani...