US Patent Issued to COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES on Aug. 5 for "Nanostructured metallic substrates and surfaces to deactivate microbes" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,585, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES (Golden, Colo.).

"Nanostructured metallic substrates and surfaces to deactivate microbes" was invented by Terry C. Lowe (Golden, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A configuration of nanoscale metal or metal oxide projections on the surface of a metal substrate is provided. The configuration, because of their nanoscale geometric characteristics, create non-uniform distributions of electrical surface charge, which can rapidly transfer into nearby microbes to reduce or eliminate their pathogenicity. The charge transfer disrupts the microbe outer membrane and inactivates p...