ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,550, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Solventum Intellectual Properties Co. (Maplewood, Minn.).
"Anti-microbial articles" was invented by Minghua Dai (Plymouth, Minn.), Jie J. Liu (Woodbury, Minn.), Joseph C. Spagnola (Woodbury, Minn.), Stephen A. O. Olson (Maplewood, Minn.), Ta-Hua Yu (Woodbury, Minn.), Junkang J. Liu (Woodbury, Minn.) and Lei Zhang (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An article. The article includes a substrate, wherein the substrate having two opposing major surfaces; and particles coated with a metal oxide on the substrate: particles coated with a metal on the substrate; wherein the coated particles are ra...