US Patent Issued to Saban Ventures on Jan. 20 for "Systems and methods for adhering biofilm to a lumen" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,020, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Saban Ventures Pty Ltd. (Macquarie Park, Australia).

"Systems and methods for adhering biofilm to a lumen" was invented by Brian Hingley (Macquarie Park, Australia), Ingeborg Kristina Palmer (Orange, Australia), Joshua Storm Caley (Sydney) and Ashwin Gopalan Nair (Queensland, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of cleaning a contaminated surface, such as cleaning the elongate interior lumen of an endoscope contaminated with flesh, bone, blood, mucous, faeces or biofilm, said method comprising the steps of: providing a suspension of solid particles in a liquid to said contaminated ...