US Patent Issued to IBIDEN on May 13 for "Antiviral substrate, antiviral composition, method for manufacturing antiviral substrate, antimicrobial substrate, antimicrobial composition and method for manufacturing antimicrobial substrate" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,371, issued on May 13, was assigned to IBIDEN Co. Ltd. (Ogaki, Japan).

"Antiviral substrate, antiviral composition, method for manufacturing antiviral substrate, antimicrobial substrate, antimicrobial composition and method for manufacturing antimicrobial substrate" was invented by Katsutoshi Horino (Ibi-gun, Japan), Kozo Takada (Ibi-gun, Japan), Kazuhiro Ito (Ibi-gun, Japan), Kohei Otsuka (Ibi-gun, Japan) and Kiyotaka Tsukada (Ibi-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an antimicrobial substrate, a cured material of a binder containing a copper compound and a polymerization initiator is fixed onto a surface of a base material....