US Patent Issued to METREX RESEARCH on Aug. 12 for "Hypochlorite based hard surface disinfectants" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,959, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to METREX RESEARCH LLC (Orange, Calif.).

"Hypochlorite based hard surface disinfectants" was invented by Abhigyan Som (Brea, Calif.), Olga Borokhov (Torrance, Calif.), Timothy J. Taylor (Orange, Calif.), Harish Jani (Lake Forest, Calif.), Anabell Jackson (Placentia, Calif.) and Robert Carrier (Moreno Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disinfectant includes a source of chlorine, a buffer system, a pH adjuster, and a polar carrier. The disinfectant has a pH of 9.9-11 and activity against Clostridium difficile spores and Mycobacterium within a 3 minute kill time. In one embodiment, the d...