US Patent Issued to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS on Dec. 9 for "Method of coating a metallic substrate with a polymeric bioactive coating" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,484, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Method of coating a metallic substrate with a polymeric bioactive coating" was invented by Arumugam Madhan Kumar (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Mohamed Abdrabou Hussein (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of coating a metallic substrate includes immersing a metallic substrate in a polymer composition including a conductive 3,4-ethylene dioxythiophene (EDOT) polymer, a gelatin polyelectrolyte, an antibacterial drug, an organic solvent, and an inorganic salt solute, and further coating the polymer compo...