US Patent Issued to MICROBAN PRODUCTS on Aug. 5 for "Ceramic additive formulation and method of making" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,154, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to MICROBAN PRODUCTS COMPANY (Huntersville, N.C.).

"Ceramic additive formulation and method of making" was invented by Alvin Lamar Campbell Jr. (Huntersville, N.C.) and Nathan L. Fields (Concord, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of making a ceramic glaze additive formulation having an antimicrobial property for use with a ceramic article is provided. The method comprises fritting an antimicrobial formulation in a flux frit, providing a silver carrier in a glass matrix, combining the flux frit and the silver carrier in the glass matrix to form the ceramic glaze additive formulation, where...