US Patent Issued to National University of Ireland, Galway on Jan. 28 for "Anti-microbial coating for objects such as prosthetic implants" (Irish, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,208,177, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to National University of Ireland, Galway (Galway, Ireland).

"Anti-microbial coating for objects such as prosthetic implants" was invented by Firas Awaja (Galway, Ireland) and Giorgio Speranza (Madrano, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of providing an anti-microbial coating on an object, comprises the steps of pre-treating the object in a first oxygen plasma to graft oxygen-based functional groups on the surface of the object by plasma enhanced chemical vapour deposition, coating the pre-treated object with a suspension of particulate graphene oxide to provide a graphene oxide coating...