US Patent Issued to Solventum Intellectual Properties on Aug. 19 for "Oral articles and methods of use" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,488, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Solventum Intellectual Properties Co. (Maplewood, Minn.).

"Oral articles and methods of use" was invented by Hannah C. Cohen (St. Paul, Minn.), Katie F. Wlaschin (St. Paul, Minn.), Yizhong Wang (Woodbury, Minn.), Amanda C. Engler (Woodbury, Minn.), Jie Yang (Woodbury, Minn.), Tiffany T. Ton (Woodbury, Minn.) and Joel D. Oxman (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Articles that include from 70 wt-% to 99 wt-% of one or more plant based oil that is solid at 25deg C., the weight percent based on the total weight of the article; and from 0.5 wt-% to 10 wt-% of fumed silica, the weight percent...