ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,601, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Biofinish International B.V. (Deventer, Netherlands).
"Functional microbiological coating" was invented by Michael Fritz Sailer (Pijnacker, Netherlands), Franciscus Antonius Van Rooijen (Deventer, Netherlands) and Stephanie Rensink (Winterswijk, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention refers to a coating composition comprising a suspension of a microorganism, wherein the suspension comprises a pigmented vegetative cell, an unpigmented vegetative cell and a pigmented chlamydospore of the microorganism, and a surfactant ranging from 130 g/mol and 1500 g/mol. The inventi...